{"id":9740,"date":"2022-03-18T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:44:44","slug":"michael-heizer-at-gagosian-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/michael-heizer-at-gagosian-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Heizer Installation at Gagosian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What carries the idea of rocks as artwork?\u00a0 \u2018Massive weight,\u2019 replies Michael Heizer in a gallery statement announcing his current exhibition of new stone and steel sculpture at Chelsea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2022\/michael-heizer\/\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0 Sheer size, heaviness, and a certain kind of audacity in relocating huge pieces of nature blasted out of place and trucked into art-related settings are the hallmark of Heizer\u2019s practice.\u00a0 In the recent sculpture, rocks seem to almost perch on thick planes of rusted steel in geometric shapes, setting up a dynamic interplay between manmade and natural forms that suggests both symbiosis and antagonistic struggle. (On view on 21<sup>st<\/sup> Street through April 16<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/28897554-01fb-e4f2-79de-f3e1a1e77eb9.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1685\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Heizer, installation view of Rock\/Steel at Gagosian Gallery, March 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What carries the idea of rocks as artwork?\u00a0 \u2018Massive weight,\u2019 replies Michael Heizer in a gallery statement announcing his current exhibition of new stone and steel sculpture at Chelsea\u2019s Gagosian Gallery.\u00a0 Sheer size, heaviness, and a certain kind of audacity in relocating huge pieces of nature blasted out of place and trucked into art-related settings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/michael-heizer-at-gagosian-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Heizer Installation at Gagosian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[117,346,8445,4807,9760,10],"class_list":["post-9740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea","tag-gagosian-gallery","tag-land-art","tag-michael-heizer","tag-rock-steel","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2x6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11494,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions\/11494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}