COLLAGE : Land Art: Earthworks for Stylish Nomads

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Friday, 08th June
COLLAGE : Land Art: Earthworks for Stylish Nomads

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There’s something about land art. The movement, which originally came about as a form of protest against the perceived materiality of American art in the late ‘60s, is defined by a deep link between the work and land. Materials in nature—from rock, to soil, water and light—make up and are manipulated to create the work. The land is not the setting: it’s the medium. Some of the first and most impactful pieces—made in Nova Scotia by Jackie Winsor, in downtown Manhattan by Agnes Denes—no longer exist: they’ve eroded or washed away. Often expansive, and most often by definition anti-commercial, land art can take on an almost mythical status. To create these pieces can take generations and by the time they’re complete, they’re often disintegrating, often viewed as magical artistic Meccas.

That so many of the monumental works of the movement have been made by men hasn’t escaped our attention. There’s something to be said for Mother Nature having ephemeral art made (on her) by male artists. An abstract collaboration of poetic dissonance. Cerebral and sublime.

Fashion, especially on the runway, is by nature performative. The clothes take on another meaning as they move down the viewer’s eye line, shifting and shaping to the theater of the show. NOMAD paired some of our favorite looks from the Fall 2014 runway collections —sheer, sweeping, earthly gowns—with Earthwork classics. An inspired perspective on our surroundings- as we spend the summer months outdoors.

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Editor: Ashley Simpson

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