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Sol LeWitt, Pyramid (Keystone NZ) - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. LeWitt’s distinctive concrete block works, which first appeared in 1985, are at once sculpture, monument and architecture. A leading figure in the history of Minimalism and then Conceptualism, LeWitt was intrigued by the various modular permutations possible through the repetitious use of the simple cube form. In Japan and Korea; attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York; and early in his carer worked as a graphic designer for the architect I M Pei. His prolifi...
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Marijke de Goey, The Mermaid - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. The work bridges an artificial lake and marks the culmination of her cube-skeleton series, which range in size from tiny brooches to monumental forms. At the time that de Goey received this commission she had not undertaken any work of such a scale, and as a result, scaling the work up from her small models relied on the expertise of the engineering team at the farm, thus demonstrating the way in which Gibbs operates as collector, commissioner and often-times producer of the art works.
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Maya Lin, A Fold in the Field - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. Encompassing approximately 30,000 square metres, A Fold in the Field is Maya Lin’s largest and most ambitious earthwork to date. It is Lin’s first earthwork depicting folds in the earth of which there are five in total, the highest of which gently rises to 11.5 metres. Lin’s memorial, though controversial at the time has become a benchmark for both memorial architecture and land art. She has served as an advisor on sustainable energy use, and as a Board Member of the USA National...
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Andy Goldsworthy, Arches - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. Built with stone quarried in Lead Hills, Scotland not far from where Gibbs’ forebears came from, and formed from ancient Roman arches, this work looks back along lines of genealogy, migration and architectural traditions. But the sculpture also has an immediacy derived from the gradual weathering of the stone by water, wind and fetch on the tidal flats, which brings the viewer face-to-face with the ever-changing character and power of its surroundings and the here and now. Dumfriessh...
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Anish Kapoor, Dismemberment, Site 1 - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. Composed of a vast PVC membrane stretched between the two giant steel ellipses, Kapoor’s work is architectural, and yet it also has a fleshy quality which the artist describes as being rather like a flayed skin . The fleshy dark red membrane that this work shares with two earlier temporary works commissioned for the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (refers to Joan of Arc). Basel; the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London; Reina Sofia, Madrid; H...
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Peter Nicholls, Rakaia - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. In the artist’s own words, this is the culmination of a series of loosely narrative, site specific sculptures, laterally configured and descriptive of journeys; in this case a response in title and braided form to Rakaia, the birthplace of Alan Gibbs. Spans more than 40 years and includes numerous large-scale sculptural works held in private and public collections internationally. In 2010 the Dunedin Public Art Gallery presented a major retrospective of his work. 4 x 5 x 60m.
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Leon van den Eijkel. A Fold in the Field. Electrum (for Len Lye). Column of Four Squares. Light Column / Cabbage Tree. Dismemberment, Site 1. Floating Island of Immortals. Leon van den Eijkel. Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape. 885 ARC x 8. Vertical Gyratory Up (V). Green and White Fence. Untitled (Red Square / Black Square). Leon van den Eijkel.
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Leon van den Eijkel. Green and White Fence. Light Column / Cabbage Tree. Dismemberment, Site 1. A Fold in the Field. Electrum (for Len Lye). Column of Four Squares. Vertical Gyratory Up (V). Untitled (Red Square / Black Square). Leon van den Eijkel. Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape. 885 ARC x 8. Floating Island of Immortals.
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Eric Orr, Electrum (for Len Lye) - Gibbs Farm
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Leon van den Eijkel. Eric Orr, a pioneer of the California Light and Space Movement of the late 1960s, was an artist whose works centred on natural phenomena such as fire, water and vapour clouds with the intention of eliciting visceral responses from viewers. Gibbs asked Orr to add lightning to his repertoire by commissioning him to create a huge sculpture that would throw lightning bolts. Pioneers of the Light and Space art movement, which coalesced in California in the late 1960’s. Orr’s works hav...
