LES PRESENTO: SEÑOR ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

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Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.





Artistic style

The materials used in Goldsworthy’s art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, “I think it’s incredibly brave to be working flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can’t edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.”[7] Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials; however, for his permanent sculptures like “Roof”, “Stone River” and “Three Cairns”, “Moonlit Path” and “Chalk Stones” (Petworth, West Sussex, 2002) he has also employed the use of machine tools.





Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. According to Goldsworthy, “Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit.”[8]

* “I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived as pastoral, pretty, beautiful – something to be enjoyed as a backdrop to your weekend before going back to the nitty-gritty of urban life. But anybody who works the land knows it’s not like that. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn’t walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.”[7]

* “One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist’s entire life. What I’ve learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”[7]



Space - The emptiness or area between, around, above, below, or contained within objects. Shapes and forms are defined by the space around and within them, just as spaces are defined by the shapes and forms around and within them.



Andy Goldsworthy’s Sculpture
art, other artists | December 15th, 2006

I have strong evidence that Andy Goldsworthy is actually an alien. He and William Eggleston - who was most aptly described in an article as a man who takes photographs as though it was his first visit to planet Earth. Indeed. It was most likely Goldworthy’s ancestors who built Stonehenge. Now he is amongst us working on an utterly different creative plain. If his sculptures don’t sell you on this premise, then say his last name aloud, ‘Goldsworthy,’ and try and convince yourself it wasn’t fabricated from the minds of beings that have been intercepting AMC movie channel Bond marathons for too long.



Goldsworthy makes his work in and from nature. Often he photographs the sculptures and brings them back to galleries. B/c even aliens need to eat.

“As with all my work, whether it’s a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I’m trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.” http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andy_goldsworthy.html

“Lo que intento hacer no es forzar, sino más bien permitir que las fuerzas existentes fluyan hacia la obra. Así que si llueve o hay viento, uso el viento, uso la lluvia, en lugar de tratar de oponer resistencia a estos elementos. Intento trabajar con ellos y ver los problemas como, en realidad, lo más interesante del trabajo. A veces, precisamente lo que ha sido un problema al hacer la obra, resulta ser lo más interesante. Y no debo combatirlo, debo trabajar con ello. Pero inevitablemente hay momentos en los que parece que estoy intentando forzar, y esos momentos son errores. Puedo ser muy perseverante —tengo que serlo para crear las obras—, pero la línea que separa la imposición de la perseverancia es muy fina. Y a veces simplemente no funciona como yo tenía pensado”
—Andy Goldsworthy



Entiendo que la obra de Andy Goldsworthy refleja muy bien la filosofía Feng Shui, recordándonos la temporalidad de las cosas, el cambio constante y como consecuencia enseñándonos el despego necesario … —Unknown



Me encanta el trabajo de Goldsworthy, especialmente su respeto a la naturaleza, adentrandose en ella y creando paisajes, a veces oníricos … —Unknown


* “Lo oí y lo olvidé, lo ví y lo entendí, lo hice y lo aprendí” —Confucio





Entiendo que la obra de Andy Goldsworthy refleja muy bien la filosofía Feng Shui, recordándonos la temporalidad de las cosas, el cambio constante y como consecuencia enseñándonos el despego necesario …