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Radical Nature and Richard Long
August 19, 2009
By Vicky Richardson
One of Heather and Ivan Morison’s domes entitled, I am so sorry. Goodbye, installed at the Barbican
Let ecology inspire artists, let biology be the blueprint for architects. If Radical Nature had a manifesto, that might be it. The Barbican’s show charts the vogue for eco-design with works dating back to 1969, before global warming was even on the international agenda.
Two years earlier in 1967, English artist Richard Long had made his ground-breaking (well, ground-treading) Land Art debut with A Line Made by Walking, a photograph of which is included in his Tate Britain retrospective, Heaven and Earth. Both shows are essentially about the same thing: a creative response to the planet.
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