Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is een beeldend kunstenaar wiens werken soms niet meer dan enkele seconden bestaan, zoals zijn rode rivierstenen die tot poeder vermalen even door de lucht dwarrelen, steeds veranderende vormen makend. Een van zijn boeken heet: 'Tijd.' Alles in het werk van Goldsworthy toont het mysterie van verandering, tijdelijkheid, het onbestendige. Dat maakt zijn werk ook zo onweerstaanbaar fascinerend. Hij fotografeerde ooit eens zijn bevroren schaduw in het gras. De zon had zijn contouren tijdelijk op de grond vastgelegd. Over hem is geschreven: 'Andy Goldsworthy creates sculptures in the landscape, using nature as the raw material and subject of his work. This exhibition brings together a series of fifteen colour photographs of these works, made between 1977 and 1979. Goldsworthy uses materials, from stones and twigs to snow and icicles, to create works that offer the viewer a heightened experience of the energy and patterning of the natural world. Photographs often provide the only lasting evidence of the artist’s reworking of nature, preserving ''the optimum moment, the moment when I had not just made the piece, but understood the piece.'' Zelf zegt de kunstenaar: 'For me, looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a sourse of twigs and branches... I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn... Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work... The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather- rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm- is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independant of its surroundings and the way it sits tells me how it came to be there. In an effort to understand why that rock is there and where it is going, I must work with it in the area in which I found it.' Al jaren bewonder ik zijn werk en vooral ook zijn verbeeldingskracht. Meer over hem kunt u ondermeer hier lezen: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/goldsworthy_andy.html