Starting May 27 and continuing until September 3, 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art (or MOCA) in Los Angeles will be presenting Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with land art. There will be works by more than 80 artists from all around the world including Japan, Israel, Iceland and Europe.
To help celebrate, we've put together a list of our very favorite pieces of land art, some of which have already been featured here on My Modern Met, as well as others that you may be seeing for the first time. What makes this art movement stand out from the rest is that natural materials are all used, and often these works are site specific, meaning they're designed for a particular location. From Nils-Udo's giant nest to Cornelia Konrads' impossibly amazing sculptures, here, then, are 21 unforgettable examples of land art.
Above by Nils-Udo
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
Sylvian Meyer
Richard Shilling
Walter Mason
Jim Denevan
Robert Smithson
Andrew Rogers
Andrew Rogers
Sylvian Meyer
Andrew Goldsworthy
Cornelia Konrads
Andrew Goldsworthy
Mikael Hansen
Andrew Goldsworthy
Cornelia Konrads
Sonja Hinrichsen
Simon Beck
Simon Beck
