Art out of galleries

Some of contemporary sculptors don`t want to show their works in galleries. The art always tried to copy the real world but know we all know how the world changes because of human activity. That`s why artists treat the nature as a work of art and the surrounding reality - like a gallery.



6. ROBERT SMITHSON
The spiral weir
1970

Robert Smithson (1938 - 1979) is an author of "The spiral weir" at the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. The artist knew that salty water will definitely change the weir`s appearance and he agreed with that fact. Presently the weir is under the water.



7. ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Twigs and stones
1993

For British sculptor - Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956) the nature is a theme of art and sculpture material, as well.



8. RICHARD LONG
1988

Since 1967 Richard Long has realised his works out of galleries and museums. During long journeys to different and almost inaccessible places of the world he arranges compositions. The arrangement is so adapted to the surrounding landscape that sometimes it`s impossible to notice theme. Lines and circles traced out in stony landscape of Sahara in 1988 are known only from photos. For Long more important was wandering than making museal objects. "Wandering - as he says - expresses a space and freedom" [4]. This proposal throwing down prevailing ways of understanding art was compared to the most decisive moments of the latest history of art. It marks located out of the history another interpretative context: of slow and unnoticable transformation of nature. Not conception of the object but conception of the place is here pivotal. That`s why Long`s works are out of galleries and contest more and more ossified in second half of sixties exhibition institutions.