Gallery owner and designer, who is also a collector and a passionate lover of art, will allocate funds for the reconstruction of the installation of the legendary 1977

WALTER DE MARIA field of lightning. 1977 Installation, USA, New Mexico Source: «Lightning Field" during a thunderstorm Source:

American Foundation Dia Foundation launched a campaign for the reconstruction of the installation by Walter De Maria (Walter de Maria) «Lightning Field," which he had no time to customer made. The work was done by the American author-minimalist, who is now 76 years old in 1977.

for reconstruction work must be 400 thousand dollars, and decided to donate large sums Larry Gagosian (Larry Gagosian) and designer Miuccia Prada (Miuccia Prada). For this installation Gagosian, by his own admission - "Mount Rushmore of the XXI century." Prada also speaks enthusiastically about the work of De Maria and calls him an artist, who had a huge influence on her. The designer and her husband were in close contact with De Maria in the preparation of its exhibitions, held in the fund Prada in Milan.

unusual installation is located in the desert to the west of New Mexico, it consists of 400 steel poles, spaced at a distance of 70 meters from each other: the poles create a sense of order in the landscape, and during a storm attract lightning. Recently, by the forces of nature began to break down the installation, many of the poles shattered and in need of strengthening. The reconstruction work should begin in 2013 and be completed by around next summer.

De Maria was born in California in 1935 and became one of the founders of land art. The artists of this trend that emerged in the late 1960s, creating large-scale works, often in nature, using natural materials or including them in the major elements of the landscape. The first work of Walter de Maria in a similar vein, refers to 1968, when he filled the underground exhibition space gallery in Munich.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artinvestment.ru