WALTER DE MARIA
THE 2000 SCULPTURE
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard - Los Angeles
1 October 2012 – 1 April 2013
A pioneering figure in the development of minimal, conceptual, land art, and installation art, Walter De Maria has made minimalist horizontal sculptures that occupy entire rooms since 1969. Measuring 10 x 50 meters (approximately 33 x 164 feet), The 2000 Sculpture was first exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1992. It is one of a series of works by De Maria featuring groupings of ordered elements using precise measurements, among them: The Lightning Field (1977), The Broken Kilometer (1979), and 360° I Ching (1981). In 2010, LACMA installed the sculpture in the Resnick Pavilion, prior to the building's official opening, in order to take advantage of the play of light and vast open space of Renzo Piano's gallery building before the interior walls were installed. The initial installation of The 2000 Sculpture in the Resnick Pavilion represented an ideal relationship between sculpture and architecture. The current presentation is the first official public exhibition of The 2000 Sculpture at LACMA, and only the second solo museum exhibition of De Maria's work in the United States.
