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| Richard Long, Flint Wheel (2008) and Measuring Consecutive and Alternating Events |
Richard Long: Circle to Circle is at
Lisson Gallery until 23 June, 2018
From the Lisson Gallery website:
"I
can make a circle of words, I can make a circle of stones, I can make a
circle of mud with my hands on a wall, I can walk in a circle for one
hundred miles. It is a completely adaptable image and form and system."
Richard Long, 1988
A large new floor-based stone circle,
Flint Wheel
(2018) is at the centre of Richard Long’s latest exhibition in London,
'Circle to Circle, which is loosely themed around different uses of the
circular motif across his practice. Constructed from knapped or split
Norfolk flint, the stones radiate out from a central nexus like spokes
on a wheel, alternating in tone between the chalky white exterior and
each flint’s darker core. This geometric, starburst pattern refers back
to previous works by Long, such as
Paddy-Field Chaff Circle
(2003), a temporary circle of radial lines made on Warli tribal land in
the Maharastra district of India, while the sculpture’s material relates
to a recent flint and slate circle,
North South East West (2017) made for his major exhibition at Houghton Hall last year.
Echoing
this will be a new River Avon crescent mud work, created by the artist
directly onto the wall at the gallery. A round shape, this work will be
bisected by a sweep of marks tracking Long’s gestural movements as he
applies viscous mud to the surface with the resultant splashes and drips
appearing below. A text work, titled From
Circle to Circle From Space to Earth (2002)
made after a continuous walk of 39 miles from a full moonrise to the
sunrise, is also a poetic description of one night in the planet’s
constant state of revolution.
(Read full text
here.)
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| Richard Long, From Circle to Circle From Space to Earth, 2002 |
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| Richard Long, Gravity Crescent, Flint Wheel and Measuring Consecutive and Alternating Events |
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| Richard Long, Gravity Crescent |
Watch (very) short video of Long creating
Gravity Crescent
