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Geneva Circle II

Artist Richard Long (Bristol, England, born 1945)

Date1987

Mediumstone

ClassificationsSculptures

DimensionsOverall: Diameter: 500 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1988 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions and with income from the Macdonald Bequest.

LocationView by Appointment

Object numberABDAG008110

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About MeRichard Long graduated from St Martin's School of Art in the 1960s and soon became associated with the new category of landscape art, called Land Art. His work won international recognition and in 1989 he became the sixth winner of the prestigious Turner Prize.

Long's work often takes the form of a walk through a remote landscape. The walk is in itself a work of art and has a precise formal structure. It is pre-planned and then recorded through photographs, texts and maps. Sometimes, in the process of the journey, Long makes a sculptural intervention in the landscape, a simple circle or a line, constructed from gathered stones or wood and then he leaves this intervention to weather naturally. Alternatively he brings the actual experience of the landscape into the Gallery, as here, in Geneva Circle II. His indoor sculpture seems to have much in common with minimalist art such as Carl Andre's Bricks but Long's work is referential. It is an evocation of the natural world.

Richard Long
Born Bristol 1945. Studied at St Martin's School of Art, London, 1966-68. First solo exhibition at Galerie Konrad Fisher, Düsseldorf,1968. Has exhibited in museums all over the world, including Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh,1074; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,1986;Hayward Gallery, London,1991; Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1994 and Plazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1994. Lives near Bristol.
From: Contemporary British Art in Print