Thursday, March 6, 2014
GARDENS AS SCULPTURE
One begins to notice that Installation art is going some way towards re-integrating sculpture with its surroundings as sculptors have for years taking an interest in garden design.
Perhaps this finds its suggestion in japanese garden design with an emphasis on abstract compositional harmonies, rusticity, borrowed views and assymetrical configuration of design elements. patterns and textures play their part as well.. a Shinto shrine exists as a space in nature.
However, It could be argued that "traditional" sculpture is considered three-dimensional, yet landscape design or gardens are more complex in that they have a fourth dimension... time.
Perhaps there is a category, somewhere in-between the two disciples, where you place installation art, experimental gardens, etc., where they truly merge? Herbert Bayer was perhaps one of the first to merge multiple visual disciplines.
The Marble Garden, 1955. Slabs of unpolished white marble, found in a nearby quarry are arranged on a 38 square platform with interesting spacial relationships created due to shadows, shifting wind patterns and a fountain jet of water in the center.
Bayers influence is evidenced in successive modernists such as Ernst Cramers "Poets Garden". Within a decade after this garden was exhibited at the 1959 garden Exposition in Zurich Switzerland it had a profound effect, maybe a "tipping point" on landscape designers and architects who then began incorporating landforms + earth sculptures into their body of work.
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