Andrew Rogers "Odysseys and Sitings"
WHITE BOX
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Australian artist Andrew Rogers announces the first exhibition devoted to the entire Rhythms of Life project, the world’s largest contemporary land art undertaking. From April 8 - May 13, the non-profit arts organization White Box will present Andrew Rogers: Odysseys and Sitings (1998 – 2008), a selection of 96 large-scale photographs of Rogers’s ground- breaking outdoor art project. Organized by Lilly Wei, a New York-based independent curator and critic, the exhibition will showcase aerial and satellite photographs of 32 sculptures created over a period of 10 years, marking the first time these images will be publicly displayed together. Also on view will be a looped, 40-minute film that documents the artist’s extraordinary process. Rogers has spent the last decade engaging over 5,000 people in 12 countries on five continents to create stone sculptures in deserts, fjords, gorges, national parks and on mountainous slopes. Often working for months on end, engaging hundreds of local workers and even the army of China to help him erect his visionary installations, Rogers engages the communities where his works are created, devising to build structures with local significance, and providing sustaining support to maintain the mammoth artworks. Following each project’s completion, Rogers photographs the work himself either from a helicopter 500 feet aloft or from a satellite stationemiles above ground.
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from April 08, 2009 to May 17, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-04-22 from 18:00 to 22:00