- Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the power couple of land/environmental art. Micheal Heizer does do large-scale land art but it does not involve fabric, it involves sculpting the land. Walter De Maria, another land artist, plays with space. And while Vivienne Westwood does play with textile and texture, she is a famous fashion designer.
- Walter De Maria pushes the limits with this outdoor installation. The field can be explored rain, thunder, or shine. It is about space. To get lost in it. Feel the force of nature.Yona Friedman also deals with space, but mostly on paper. Check out his wonderful drawings!
- Matta-Clark studied architecture, but he practiced what he called “Anarchitecture”: the transformation and morphing of space in abandoned/leftover buildings. His famous “building cuts” distorted the built environment, dissecting and shifting our gaze. Today, the buildings that he cut have been demolished. But the pictures of the works are quite impressive. Check them out!
- Strandbeests are the creation of Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist who combines art and engineering. His “smart” creatures walk along the beaches of the Netherlands propelled by the wind. They can even detect obstacles, adjust their travels accordingly, and continue on walking...
-Yona Friedman loves his dog. And so should we if he is truly the inspiration behind Friedman’s architectural drawings. Hypnotizing drawings of megastructures. You can get lost in them.Think of it as M.C. Escher gone to a cubic circus. Exploring space and the utopian visions of the 1960s. Endless arrangements and possibilities.
-Caves are cool. Yes, indeed, in these underground chambers you can find prehistoric drawings and handprints. In the caves of Lascaux, most of the drawings, painted onto the walls using mineral pigments, are of large animals that lived nearby. Also, in caves we can find deposits and fun formations of all shapes and sizes called speleothems.
-Before the invention of the radar, the acoustic mirror was used to warn people of the approach of aircrafts aiming for an attack. These "listening ears" act just like concave mirror hence they are called acoustic mirrors. When the sound waves travel from very far, they hit the spherical disk and merge at the focal point amplifying the sound, ringing the alarm. The invisible, the undetected is then heard.
-Dan Graham is an artist who grew up in New Jersey. Influenced by his upbringing, he is famous for his magazine-style photographs of the American suburban row houses. Here, we mention him for his mirror projects, more precisely for his “Two-way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth” at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
A maze with mirrors, transparencies and reflections. To see and be seen. To see the sky, the clouds and the reflected hedges. To see the inside and the outside of the labyrinth. Here, there and nowhere alike.
-“Koyanisquatsi” is the soundtrack. A tone poem… And here is the theatrical trailer.( The wrong answer)
(Taken from the Quiz page)
