Occupation: Artist Birth: September 6, 1938 Death: January 21, 2011
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism..
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communica….
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.).
Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been..
An artist works through exposed wounds..
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven..
Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which al….