Richard Long

Richard Long has been making sculptures that closely relate to walks he takes through a variety of landscapes around the world since the late 1960s. The stones for Mountainside Ellipse come from the outskirts of Athens, Greece. For the artist, these sculptures transfer his impression of a place rather than provide the direct representation of words or photographs. Starting with a simple geometric shape drawn in chalk on the floor-an ellipse in this case-the stones are evenly distributed, balancing the material’s roughness and rawness with the orderly intimacy of experiencing nature in a gallery space.