Michael Heizer
The Pavilions, Room 5
Recognized as a pioneer of the Land Art movement of the 1960’s, Michael Heizer (b. 1944) uses his massive, innovative sculptures to shift our understanding of what art can be. Installed in Room 5, Collapse, 1967/2016 is a large-scale weathering steel sculpture comprised of fifteen beams arranged within—and extending beyond—a box fitted within the surrounding earth. Commissioned for Glenstone, this work is based on a wooden model studying chaos structure that the artist created in 1967. This “outdoor” sculpture is installed within an enclosure open to the elements but accessed only via the Pavilions interior.
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Michael Heizer
Collapse, 1967/2016
On View Heizer 1967Collapse, 1967/2016
A588 steel
36 x 24 x 16 feet (1097 x 732 x 488 cm)
© 2018 Michael Heizer
Photo: Jerry Thompson
On View Jerry Thompson Michael Heizer https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/HEIZm_GF_Collapse.jpg