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Untitled (Lunar Inference / Landscape Intrusive Depression)

Michael Heizer, 1969

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The American artist Michael Heizer is credited with inventing 'Earth art' or Land art' with his friend Walter De Maria after a series of trips to the American desert in the early 1960s. Heizer would go on to redefine sculpture and its relationship to drawing in terms of scale, mass, gesture, and process. This drawing is a rare example of the artistÂ’s commitment to traditional modes of art making and its relationship to his unique sculptural practice. This work was presented by the Art Fund through Art Fund International and it complements and opens up a set of concerns explored in works by Robert Smithson, also presented to mima through the AFi scheme.

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Title of artwork, date

Untitled (Lunar Inference / Landscape Intrusive Depression), 1969

Date supported

2010

Medium and material

Charcoal & ink on paper

Dimensions

47.6 x 63.5 cm

Grant

28195

Total cost

28195

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