Richard Long
Mistral DaysYear 2022
Medium Inkjet print on Fine Art paper
Dimensions 80 x 50 cm.
Edition 100 + 5AP
After having installed the work Circle of Riverstones on the Art and Architecture walk at Château La Coste, Richard Long returned to the estate in 2021 with a temporary exhibition where two site-specific installations were created: on the gallery floor, Long built an installation with stones and on the walls were two large frescoes. These works, named Mistral Days, found their inspiration in the rapid, uncontrollable movements of the Provençal wind known for its strength and intensity. The frescoes were made from red clay collected from the region around Vallauris, a city known as the capital of pottery and ceramic art in France. From antiquity to contemporary times, the soil of this village has inspired many potters and artists, such as Pablo Picasso in the 1950s. Long's work here was created almost instinctively, he himself having applied by hand the clay on the walls, giving the material movement and texture.
Following his exhibition at Château La Coste in 2021, Richard Long has produced a limited-edition print which immortalizes his mural works. By choosing to focus on one detail of his monumental frescoes, Long gives a refocused perspective of his work and his technique: the marks of his fingers in the clay are visible and almost reminiscent of brushstrokes. As for the clay material, here it appears even more organic, more textured.
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Considered one of the figureheads of Land Art, Richard Long is a British artist born in 1945 known for his stone paths that follow his wanderings in nature. For his installations around the world, Richard Long works mainly with local materials and in harmony with a context that is both historical and geological.
Recipient of the Turner Prize in 1989, Richard Long lives and works between London and Bristol. His works are part of the collections of world-renowned institutions such as MOMA, New York, SFMOMA, Tate Modern, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. They have also been the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world, notably at the CAB Foundation, Brussels, Tate Britain, London, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo or the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Artists Richard Long
Name of the work Mistral Days
Year 2022
Medium Inkjet print on Fine Art paper
Edition 100 + 5AP
Dimensions 80 x 50 cm.
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
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