Andy Goldsworthy : : Ephemeral Works 2004-2014.

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Call Number: 702.8 Go Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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For forty years, Andy Goldsworthy has worked with an extraordinary range of natural materials, often at their source. On an almost daily basis, he makes works of art using the materials and conditions that he encounters wherever he is, be it the land around his Scottish home, the mountain regions of France or Spain, or the pavements of New York City, Glasgow, or Rio de Janeiro. Out of earth, rocks, leaves, ice, snow, rain, sunlight and shadow he makes artworks that exist briefly before they are altered and erased by natural processes. They are documented in his photographs, and their larger meanings are bound up with the conditions, forces and processes that they embody: materiality, temporality, growth, vitality, permanence, decay, chance, labour and memory. Ephemeral Works features approximately two hundred of these works, selected by Goldsworthy from thousands he has made between 2001 and the present, and arranged in chronological sequence, capturing his creative process as it interacts with material, place, and the passage of time and seasons.

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the better book of those he has submitted by thomasrode on July 11, 2019, 10:32pm This book feels more complete than the others - well, no wonder it is a collection of 10 years.
Beautiful pictures of structures he builds just to have them wrecked by nature (sometimes within minutes). He puts tremendous work in his creations which seem so simple, but simple not easy to build. The notes are simple too but very helpful to understand his building process and materials he used: e.g. Nov 2nd. Easy in the morning. Wind got stronger in afternoon. Leaves, thorns, chalk. - Or standing during sunrise on one spot to create frost shadow. (you have to sea the picture to understand). - Or splashes of water on asphalt creating reflections
You see that he uses only items he finds in nature. Sometimes awkward tendencies like crawling thru a pile of leaves but mostly beautiful. Oh, his icicle works!