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Star Axis
''Star Axis'' is an earthwork built by American sculptor Charles Ross to observe the stars, which is considered to be a defining example of land art. The roughly eleven-story architectonic sculpture and naked-eye observatory is situated on a mesa in the eastern plains of the New Mexico desert. It incorporates five main elements that include apertures framing several earth-to-star alignments, which allow a visitor to experience them in human scale. Ross conceived the project in 1971, began construction in 1976, and as of fall 2022, had targeted 2025 for its completion. Art historian Thomas McEvilley places the work in the lineage of monuments of archaeoastronomy such as the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, El Caracol, Chichen Itza and the 15th-century Ulugh Beg Observatory. Curator and writer Klaus Ottmann has described ''Star Axis'' as "a summary of Ross's lifelong pursuit of the dynamics of human interaction with light and the cosmos." Background Charles Ross (born 1937) is k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ross (artist)
Charles Ross (born 1937) is an American contemporary artist known for work centered on natural light, time and planetary motion.McEvilley, Thomas. "Charles Ross: Following the North Star,''Charles Ross: The Substance of Light'' Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2022.Kuspit, Donald. "Charles Ross: Light's Measure," ''Art in America'', March–April 1978, p. 96–9.Karlin, Susan''The New York Times'', November 3, 2002. Retrieved February 2, 2022. His practice spans several art modalities and includes large-scale prism and solar spectrum installations, "solar burns" created by focusing sunlight through lenses, paintings made with dynamite and powdered pigment, and ''Star Axis'', an earthwork built to observe the stars.Beachy-Quick, Dan"Charles Ross, Rule Gallery,"''Artforum'', December 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2022.Hass, Nancy''The New York Times'', September 18, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2022.Adlmann, Jan Ernst"Charles Ross,"''Art in America'', October 5, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |