"Double Negative", Michael Heizer, Northwest of Overton, Nevada, 1969.
Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specialized in monumental sculptures and Land Art. He went to the Art Institut of San Francisco. Born in 1944, he was a part of the Land Art generation with Robert Morris, Nancy Holt, D. Oppenheim, R. Long, Carl André and his wife. The picture is one of his first earthwork, an example of a return to the ancestral, primitive earth. » Double Negative » is a displacement of tons of land. The subject shows the fact we can’t identify what has been touch by the hand of men and what it isn’t. It challenges the gap between the naturals deformations against fake ones. Thus it shows the discrepancies of what is related to art’s works, with museum.
"Double Negative", Michael Heizer, Northwest of Overton Nevada, 1969.
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