Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014

Name: Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014
Author: Andy Goldsworthy
ISBN: 9781419717796

by Andy Goldsworthy

For forty years, Andy Goldsworthy has worked with an extraordinary range of natural materials, often at their source. On an almost daily basis, he makes works of art using the materials and conditions that he encounters wherever he is, be it the land around his Scottish home, the mountain regions of France or Spain, or the pavements of New York City, Glasgow, or Rio de Janeiro. Out of earth, rocks, leaves, ice, snow, rain, sunlight and shadow he makes artworks that exist briefly before they are altered and erased by natural processes. They are documented in his photographs, and their larger meanings are bound up with the conditions, forces and processes that they embody: materiality, temporality, growth, vitality, permanence, decay, chance, labour and memory.…

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"Andy Goldsworthy creates art from the materials he finds in nature. His sculptures are made from ice sheets, tree branches, snow, clay and rock — he uses leaves like paint. Much of his art is meant to be ephemeral, to decay and degrade with the elements, to exist in a moment. Fortunately, Goldsworthy also photographs this work for us to enjoy and has collected 10 years of his temporary art in this beautiful coffee table book. Plus, if you’ve ever had the urge to just lie down outside in the rain, Goldsworthy’s rain shadow photographs provide you an excuse — you’re making art. Another book documenting his more permanent works is due out in spring 2017."

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