Walter Of Maria is a American Artiste born on October 1st 1935 with Albany in California.

Biography

In 1957 it is graduate the University of California with Berkeley, where it obtains its M.F.A. in Peinture later two years. With his friend the type-setter of before guard Assembles It Young, it takes part in happenings like with theatrical productions in the area of San Francisco.

In 1960 it settles with New York where it writes tests on art, which will be published in An Anthology of Young. It still continues to take part in happenings. In 1961 it makes its first sculptures of boxes out of wooden. In 1963, Of Maria and Robert Whitman open the 9 Great Jones Street Gallery with New York. The same year the first exposure solo of Sculpture of Maria is presented there. The same year still he worked with the beater of the group of Rock emblematic of the time, The Velvet Underground, then taken along by Lou Reed. He continues the Sculpture on wood, begins his “invisible drawings” (literally “invisible drawings/diagrams”) and composes of the Musique. With the assistance of the conservative Robert C. Scull, it begins the creation of metal parts in 1965.

These metal works (aluminum) most known are the following ones:

• Museum Part (1966) Represents Swaztika.

• Cross-country race . (1965-66) Represent the Christian cross.
• Star (1972) Represents star of the Judaism.

These works were designed separately but are now joined together with the museum Guggenheim. The idea of these works was to divert them of their original direction. By the simple fact of exposing them in a Musée it reduced them to simple visual works without any other connotation. There was obviously much provocation in this way of doing.

Of Maria of the leaders of the “Earthwork” by filling Heiner Friedrich Galerie of Munich of ground in 1968 then became one. The same year it conceived the The Mile Long Drawing in the Desert in the Désert of Mojaves which, initiated in 1962, is conceived of two one mile long walls each one. An important exposure of sculptures of Maria took place at the Kunstmuseum of Basle in 1972. It continues to be occupied in the geometrical Earthwork and sculptures in the Années 1970. Its Three Continent Poject is completed in 1972 and its Lightning Field is completed in 1977 with the New Mexico. This remained like its most recognized work: the artist constituted a rectangle in the nature of one kilometer out of 1.6 km. This rectangle is filled with 400 steel posts which orchestrate a ballet of the lightning. The Lightning Field is managed by the DIA Art Foundation of New York.

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