Word: heizer
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...Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff Koons, plus a 400-ton Michael Heizer rock, which Govan boasts will be "one of the largest monolithic objects moved since ancient times...
...Heizer's rock is called Levitated Slot Mass, says Govan, unearthing a photograph of it from his very contemporary office. Across the room, artist John Baldessari's photograph of the New York City skyline doubles as a window shade through which to watch cars whizzing along Wilshire. A wall-size photograph displays what looks like the city's iconic Hollywood sign but is a replica created in Palermo, Italy, by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan...
...with such artists as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, and when he got to Dia in 1994, he helped his artists dream big. Besides offering them close to 240,000 sq. ft. (73,000 sq m) of exhibition space at Dia, he embraced such large-scale earthworks as Michael Heizer's City project and James Turrell's Roden Crater...
...critic who spends all his time in museums. He's the kind who finds himself trudging up the side of Mont Ste.-Victoire, the peak in Provence that was Paul Cézanne's perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...color over a rectangular gridwork of lines drawn with a slightly trembling pencil. Something sings across those shivering wires. Dia also has the space to present some of the weightiest and most forceful postwar American art. The sheer tonnage of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses, 1996-97, or Michael Heizer's North, East, South, West, 1967-2002--four massive holes, each a slightly vertiginous 20 ft. deep--operates by pressing down into your nerve paths the heft, the lethal power, of the physical world...