Richard Long: Prints 1970-2013
Date uploaded: March 26, 2014
The New Art Gallery Walsall present the first comprehensive exhibition of prints in the UK by Richard Long, running from the 16th April 2014 to the 22nd June 2014.
Richard Long is among a generation of artists who wanted to extend the possibilities of sculpture beyond the confines of traditional materials, expanding the artist's view from that of observing the landscape to journeying through it. The materials used, such as stones, pebbles and driftwood, are gathered in situ and assembled by Long into circles, lines and eclipses. The artist's walks, which have taken him through Nepal, Africa, Mexico, Bolivia and remote areas of Britain, are documented with photographs, wall drawings and printed statements.
This exhibition will bring together, for the first time, all of the artist’s prints, made over a 40-year period. These provide great insight into the relationship between Long’s sculpture and graphic work. NO FOOTPRINTS (2013), a new limited edition print created expressly for the occasion of the exhibition, makes reference to a ten-day walk in the Ellsworth Mountains in Antartica in December 2012 when it was not possible for the artist to leave behind any footprints at all in the frozen, bluish ice masses.
To accompany this print retrospective, Long will create a special wall-drawing on the Gallery’s 26 metre-long wall, together with an on location floor sculpture in response to the Gallery’s architecture.
The New Art Gallery Walsall is the only UK venue for this exhibition, which has been produced in collaboration with Museum Kurhaus Kleve and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany. A catalogue raisonné publication, with contributions from each institution, accompanies the exhibition at special exhibition price £25.
In Conversation
Tuesday 15 April
5pm prompt
Join Richard Long in his exhibition for a free pre-preview talk with Stephen Snoddy, Gallery Director.
The evening will continue with a preview, 6-8pm
Speeches 6.45pm
For more details click here.
