Galerie Lelong: Dialogues: Andy Goldsworthy with Brett Littman

23 April 2022 
  • Galerie Lelong & Co., New York is pleased to present a conversation held on occasion of Andy Goldsworthy's solo exhibition...

    Galerie Lelong & Co., New York is pleased to present a conversation held on occasion of Andy Goldsworthy's solo exhibition Red Flags, on view in the gallery from March 31 to May 7, 2022.

    Join the artist in conversation with Brett Littman, director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum and curator of Frieze Sculpture 2020 as they discuss the birth and development of Red Flags (2020). From Goldsworthy’s initial visit to Rockefeller Center in 2019 to involving volunteers all over the U.S. in the collection of red earth, by the time the flags were installed for Frieze Sculpture they had accrued additional layers—becoming “bound up with the pandemic, lockdown, division and unrest,” as Goldsworthy says. The transformation of the weathered flags and their recontextualization within the gallery space, on view once more in New York City, invite viewers to a new mode of reflection.

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  • About the Speakers

    In a diverse career spanning four decades, Andy Goldsworthy has become one of the most prominent and iconic contemporary sculptors....
    Photo: John Halpern.

    In a diverse career spanning four decades, Andy Goldsworthy has become one of the most prominent and iconic contemporary sculptors. In photographs, sculptures, installations, and films, Goldsworthy documents his explorations of the effects of time, the relationship between humans and their natural surroundings, and the beauty in loss and regeneration. Goldsworthy’s permanent projects and ephemeral works contrast in their scale, tension, and lifetime, but are unified through their responses to the environment and his constant investigation into understanding the landscape he is in.

    Recent permanent site-specific installations by Goldsworthy include Walking Wall, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Watershed, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Stone Sea, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Chaumont Cairn, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France; Path and Rising Stone, Albright Knox Art Gallery, New York; and Wood Line, Presidio of San Francisco, California. Goldsworthy is currently working on Hanging Stones in North York Moors, UK. In this ongoing project, ten existing buildings, all in varying states of disrepair, have been or will be rebuilt as artworks and connected by a six-mile walk encompassing Northdale, near Rosedale Abbey.

    Other permanent works can be seen at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; de Young Museum, California; Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York; Storm King Art Center, New York; Stanford University, California; and Haute Provence Geological Reserve in Digne-les-Bains, France, among numerous other sites. Major solo exhibitions of Goldsworthy's work have been presented by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; and Des Moines Art Center, Illinois.

    The artist was born in Cheshire, England, in 1956, and is now based in Scotland.

  • Brett Littman is the Director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York. He...

    Brett Littman is the Director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York. He was the Executive Director of The Drawing Center from 2007–2018; the Deputy Director of MOMA PS1 from 2003–2007; the Co-Director of Dieu Donné Papermill from 2001–2003 and the Associate Director of UrbanGlass from 1996–2001.

    His interests are multi-disciplinary. He has personally curated more than 30 exhibitions over the last decade dealing with visual art, outsider art, craft, design, architecture, poetry, music, and science. Littman is also an art critic and lecturer, an active essayist for museum and gallery catalogues, and has written articles for a wide range of United States–based and international art, fashion, and design magazines.

    A native New Yorker, he was awarded a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from France in 2017, and was named curator of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, NY, in 2019 and 2020. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.