Gallerists and private patrons fund and promote Land Art in Nevada and Utah; Foundation wind-down set for 2038.
Gallerists and private patrons fund and promote Land Art in Nevada and Utah; Foundation wind-down set for 2038. Selling the unsellable: Who’s building Land Art’s legacy? | Art Basel In 1967, in an apparent rejection of art as ‘a malleable barter-exchange item’, as he put it, the US artistMichael Heizerstruck out to make vast sculptures in the deserts of the American Southwest. Comments such as Heizer’s contributed to an idealized, if oversimplified, narrative that those who created earthworks outdoors were stridently opposed to the commodified art market system. But while many of the most famous outdoor sculptures from the 1960s onwards were deliberately intended to sit outside of the gallery system, gallerists and private patrons have played pivotal roles in most, if not all, of the careers and legacies of the major figures of Land Art. And for some, those careers – and markets – are only now being fully recognized. ...