Andrew Rogers: Geoglyphs, Rhythms of Life

by Andrew Rogers (Artist), Eleanor Heartney (Text by), Golan Levi (Text by), Hannes Sigurdsson (Text by), Andrew Rogers (Text by)

Overview

Since 1999--in the spirit of Land artists such as James Turrell and Michael Heizer--Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers has been working on Geoglyphs, Rhythms of Life, a series of massive stone geoglyphs (large-scale works carved into or drawn on the ground) intended to form a chain across the globe, as well as to serve as a metaphor for the cycle of life. Additionally, Rogers uses these works as backdrops for photographs of nude and pregnant women in a related series, also presented here, called Celebration of Life. The chain has thus far been completed in 12 locations across five continents with the assistance of 5,000 people. This exhaustive volume, featuring 1,436 reproductions, including aerial and satellite images, brims with on-site photographs recording Rogers' travels through a breathtaking array of landscapes, from the dizzying heights of the Bolivian Altiplano to the pristine serenity of Nepal's Himalayas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788881587124
Publisher:	Macmillan Art Publishing
Publication date:	12/31/2009
Pages:	646
Product dimensions:	12.20(w) x 14.70(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

CHRONOLOGY & BIBLIOGRAPHYAndrew Rogers is one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary sculptors with an international reputation. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and is creating the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. Monumental Geoglyphs have been constructed in nine countries to date - Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Iceland, China, India and Turkey. SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS2007 Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland: Rhythms of Life I-VII2007 James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, USA2007 William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Australia2005 Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia2004 Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, U.S.A.2004 Gomboc Sculpture Park, W.A. AustraliaSELECTED MUSEUMS, PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS,INTERNATIONALGrounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, USAStonebriar Park, Dallas, Texas, USAHebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelHarwood Center, Dallas, Texas, USAHall Vineyard Inc., California, USAMachu Picchu Municipality, PeruSELECTED MUSEUMS, PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS, AUSTRALIANational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACTArt Gallery of New South WalesNational Gallery of VictoriaVictorian Arts Centre, MelbourneINVITED LECTURES & WORKSHOPSState of the World Forum - San Francisco, U.S.A.Artist in Residence, Institute of Technology at Technion University, Haifa, IsraelThe Young Presidents' Organization. Auckland, NewZealandSymposium at Sculptures by the Sea, Bondi, NSW, AustraliaCONTROBUTORS BIOGRAPHY:Eleanor Heartney, Arts Writer and Critic, New York, USAResides in New York, USAHeartney is contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for many other magazines.Her books include Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads, Postmodernism, and Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. Heartney received in 1992 the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism. Since 2003, she has been co-president of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association.Lilly Wei, Arts Writer and Critic, New York, USAResides in New York, USALilly Wei is an independent curator and critic based in New York. She has written for many publications in the United States and abroad, as a contributing editor at ARTnews and Art Asia Pacific, as a regular contributor since 1982 to Art in America, as well as Asian Art News, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Tema Celeste, Flash Art, Art Press, Art and Auction and Glass Quarterly, among others. She has been the essayist for many exhibition catalogues and brochures on contemporary art, including publications for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Neuberger Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has served on numerous advisory panels and review committees, including the Pew Fellowship awards, and is a member of several boards, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA), Art in General, and Art Omi, an international artist residency programme. Wei has been a guest lecturer, panellist and visiting critic at art institutions in the United States and abroad, and has curated numerous shows. She has an M.A. in art history from Columbia University, New York.Hannes Sigurdsson, Director of the Akureyri Museum, Iceland. Resides in Reykjavik, IcelandHannes Sigurdsson has been actively involved in the art world for 27 years. He was appointed the director of the Akureyri Art Museum in 1999, and is the founder and director of the Icelandic Cultural Enterprise art.is. Sigurdsson received an M.A. in Art History from UC Berkeley, having previously studied at University College London and graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Department of Painting, and the Reykjavik College of Music as a flautist. He worked in New York as an art correspondent and began his career as an independent curator there. Since then, he has edited and published dozens of books and catalogues and curated over 350 exhibitions and large-scale projects, including shows on Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Per Kirkeby, Carolee Schneemann, Sally Mann, Spencer Tunick, Joel-Peter Witkin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rembrandt and Goya, to name but a few. Sigurdsson has collaborated with museums, institutions, educational authorities, corporations and galleries around the world in countries as diverse as Norway, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Latvia, Russia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Jordan, India, Japan and the United States. He is the founder of the Icelandic Visual Arts Awards that were launched in 2006.Golan LeviResides in Petach-Tikva, IsraelDate of Birth, 22 December 1973Golan Levi, is a leading architect known for the creativity of his work.

CHRONOLOGY & BIBLIOGRAPHYAndrew Rogers is one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary sculptors with an international reputation. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and is creating the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. Monumental Geoglyphs have been constructed in nine countries to date - Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Iceland, China, India and Turkey. SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS2007 Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland: Rhythms of Life I-VII2007 James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, USA2007 William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Australia2005 Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia2004 Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, U.S.A.2004 Gomboc Sculpture Park, W.A. AustraliaSELECTED MUSEUMS, PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS,INTERNATIONALGrounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, USAStonebriar Park, Dallas, Texas, USAHebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelHarwood Center, Dallas, Texas, USAHall Vineyard Inc., California, USAMachu Picchu Municipality, PeruSELECTED MUSEUMS, PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS, AUSTRALIANational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACTArt Gallery of New South WalesNational Gallery of VictoriaVictorian Arts Centre, MelbourneINVITED LECTURES & WORKSHOPSState of the World Forum - San Francisco, U.S.A.Artist in Residence, Institute of Technology at Technion University, Haifa, IsraelThe Young Presidents' Organization. Auckland, New ZealandSymposium at Sculptures by the Sea, Bondi, NSW, AustraliaCONTROBUTORS BIOGRAPHY:Eleanor Heartney, Arts Writer and Critic, New York, USAResides in New York, USAHeartney is contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for many other magazines.Her books include Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads, Postmodernism, and Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. Heartney received in 1992 the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism. Since 2003, she has been co-president of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association.Lilly Wei, Arts Writer and Critic, New York, USAResides in New York, USALilly Wei is an independent curator and critic based in New York. She has written for many publications in the United States and abroad, as a contributing editor at ARTnews and Art Asia Pacific, as a regular contributor since 1982 to Art in America, as well as Asian Art News, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Tema Celeste, Flash Art, Art Press, Art and Auction and Glass Quarterly, among others. She has been the essayist for many exhibition catalogues and brochures on contemporary art, including publications for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Neuberger Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has served on numerous advisory panels and review committees, including the Pew Fellowship awards, and is a member of several boards, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA), Art in General, and Art Omi, an international artist residency programme. Wei has been a guest lecturer, panellist and visiting critic at art institutions in the United States and abroad, and has curated numerous shows. She has an M.A. in art history from Columbia University, New York.Hannes Sigurdsson, Director of the Akureyri Museum, Iceland. Resides in Reykjavik, IcelandHannes Sigurdsson has been actively involved in the art world for 27 years. He was appointed the director of the Akureyri Art Museum in 1999, and is the founder and director of the Icelandic Cultural Enterprise art.is. Sigurdsson received an M.A. in Art History from UC Berkeley, having previously studied at University College London and graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Department of Painting, and the Reykjavik College of Music as a flautist. He worked in New York as an art correspondent and began his career as an independent curator there. Since then, he has edited and published dozens of books and catalogues and curated over 350 exhibitions and large-scale projects, including shows on Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Per Kirkeby, Carolee Schneemann, Sally Mann, Spencer Tunick, Joel-Peter Witkin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rembrandt and Goya, to name but a few. Sigurdsson has collaborated with museums, institutions, educational authorities, corporations and galleries around the world in countries as diverse as Norway, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Latvia, Russia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Jordan, India, Japan and the United States. He is the founder of the Icelandic Visual Arts Awards that were launched in 2006.Golan LeviResides in Petach-Tikva, IsraelDate of Birth, 22 December 1973Golan Levi, is a leading architect known for the creativity of his work.