Michael Heizer’s ‘Double Negative,’ an enormous cut into the ground of Mormon Mesa, Nevada and his 1.5-mile-long shaped landscape, ‘City’ are among the most astounding artworks of the mid-20th century and were created far from urban art centers. Though a fraction of the size and located indoors at Gagosian Gallery‘s 21st Street Chelsea space, Heizer’s current installation of the sculptures ‘Convoluted Line A’ and ‘Convoluted Line B’ from 2024 are nonetheless impressively scaled and prompt a rethink of the space of the gallery. Each is formed of twisting steel earth liners set in a specially constructed concrete floor to create long lines of negative space along which visitors can walk, taking the measure of the piece not just with the eye but with the body. (On view in Cheslea through March 28th).
