"It' s a sort of cliché but it's true in some way. My work is about the characteristics of the planet I live on. Water, stones, mud, sun, snow, wind, mountains, walking, gravity - all of this is universal. My language is everything we share, not the things that make us different." – Richard Long
Konrad Fischer Galerie is very glad to present the 22nd solo exhibition of Richard Long introducing two new works: From Stone To Stone created of sandstones from Ibbenbüren and From Stone To Stone. Red Hand Road, a floor piece made of red paint drawn by hand. The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of text and photo works as well as paintings on driftwood.
The art of Richard Long is about walking in landscape, about the experience of space, time and distance. During his hikes in nature all over the world, he creates artworks made of in-situ found material like stones, water, wood and mud or the trail he's walking transforms into an artwork. The walks and hikes are very different. They can be made crossing a specific distance—place to place, coast to coast—or following an in advance determined timeline - hours, days, number of steps.
Richard Long's sculptures and wall works are based on simple geometric, timeless and archaic structures - lines, circles, spirals and squares made of different stones, driftwood, turf or willow rods. In his text and photographic works, Long is keeping records of both, his walks and of the artworks created en route and usually left for weathering and disappearance.
He describes his artistic language as kind of universal. "It' s a sort of cliché but it's true in some way. My work is about the characteristics of the planet I live on. Water, stones, mud, sun, snow, wind, mountains, walking, gravity - all of this is universal. My language is everything we share, not the things that make us different."
Richard Long was born in 1945 in Bristol where he still lives and works. In 1968, at the age of 23 he showed for the first time at Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf. His oeuvre has been shown at documenta 5, documenta 7 and at Venice Biennial in 1976 and 1978, among others. In 1989 he received the Turner Prize, in 1996 the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize. In 2009 he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Japan.
