THE SMART GUIDE SCENES FROM “CITY” Every corner of the astonishing work (below and previous page) by Michael Heizer (above) presents a new perspective. is now known as Land Art, along with Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, Richard Long and, perhaps most famously, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The works of all these artists involve the earth itself as a part of the piece, whether it is excavating and reshaping the soil or framing the landscape in a novel way. The pieces are often jawdropping in scale—and the newly opened work by Heizer in the American desert, “City,” is no exception, stretching 1.5 miles by 0.5 miles, an expanse that is best appreciated from an airplane but is intended to be experienced on the ground. TODD HEISLER / THE NEWYORKTIMES / REDUX / LAIF As such, it unfolds slowly as you pace through the imposing site, continually surprised by its angular concrete constructions and mammoth earthforms that evoke both ancient ceremonies and modern metropolises. Both the historic and the contemporary resonances are intentional here, just as they are at other Land Art masterpieces: The shadow of conceptual art, which also developed in the 1960s, looms large over the movement and the resulting conceptual sophistication adds depth to the visceral experience of the works. Questions of mortality, of Sisyphean futility and, naturally, of legacy all intermix—and you can’t fail to appreciate, here in the middle of the high desert of Basin and Range National Monument, why this massive creation might outlive most of our contemporary feats of architecture. The American West has long been a popular home for these creations of otherworldly scale, from Robert Smithson’s iconic “Spiral Jetty” (1970) near the Great Salt Lake in Utah to light artist James Turrell’s “Roden Crater” in Arizona, which he began in the 1970s and is still ongoing, though the two-milewide crater is only sometimes accessible to the public (and, in 2019, to Kanye West, who filmed an IMAX-format music video there). But America is not the only setting where a sense of our infinitesimality is apt, and such works have been proliferating in recent years in places like Patagonia and the Australian Outback. Most recently, a new site has been announced for a series of huge projects: AlUla in Saudi Arabia, where the new Valley of the Arts will be home to five new permanent installations in the next two years, including a work by Heizer and another by Turrell. Will it become the world’s largest sculpture park, a supersized version of the soul-stirring Château La Coste in Provence? Or will it be something closer to a sculpture graveyard, as a few of the trendy art parks are sadly becoming? Impossible to say now—but one thing is clear: largescale outdoor art is here to stay, and Heizer’s “City” will almost certainly outlast us all. tripleaughtfoundation.org COMPLEX ONE, CITY; © MICHAEL HEIZER; COURTESY TRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATION; PHOTO BY MARY CONVERSE CEDAR CITY AIRPORT TO GREAT BASIN NATIONAL RESERVE: 142 miles 12 NetJets
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