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LAND ART EXHIBITION – 1969

Land Art Exhibition Announcement (on transparent paper)
Walter de Maria, “Two lines three circles in the dessert” [individual postcard announcement – mailed]
Jan Dibbets: “12 Hours tide object with correction perspective”
Barry Flanagan: “A hole in the sea” [individual postcard announcement – mailed]
Michael Heizer: “Coyote” [individual postcard announcement – mailed]
Richard Long: “10 Miles of Landscape”
Dennis Oppenheim: “Timetrack” [individual postcard announcement – mailed]
Robert Smithson: “Fossil Quarry Mirror” [individual postcard announcement – mailed]

Source: leftmatrix.com

“The Lightning Field (1977), by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. It is comprised of 400 polished stainless steel poles installed in a grid array measuring one mile by one kilometer. The poles – two inches in diameter and averaging 20 feet and 7½ inches in height – are spaced 220 feet apart and have solid pointed tips that define a horizontal plane. A sculpture to be walked in as well as viewed, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced over an extended period of time. A full experience of The Lightning Field does not depend upon the occurrence of lightning, and visitors are encouraged to spend as much time as possible in the field, especially during sunset and sunrise. In order to provide this opportunity, Dia offers overnight visits during the months of May through October.

Commissioned and maintained by Dia Art Foundation, The Lightning Field is recognized internationally as one of the late-twentieth century’s most significant works of art and exemplifies Dia’s commitment to the support of art projects whose nature and scale exceed the limits normally available within the traditional museum or gallery.

Dia Art Foundation also maintains three other Walter De Maria projects: The Broken Kilometer (1979) and The New York Earth Room (1977), both in New York City, as well as The Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977) in Kassel, Germany.”

As designed for painting with plastic sheeting, the empty rooms of the Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich were designed on a September day in 1968. However, another project reveals the foil raised about 1 meter up the wall and the seven peat bales lined up in the foreground a man stands looking out of the window. It is the American artist Walter de Maria, who apparently looks forward to the delivery of more earth bales on the street. In the door frame to the right are the gallery owner Heiner Friedrich and a visitor who watches the action. The photo comes from a photo series of the gallery estate Heiner Friedrich in the central archive of the international art trade and shows the exhibition structure of the first “Earth Room” by Walter de Maria: The gallery rooms were built with 50 cubic meters of earth,