Photograph, black and white, on paper
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Turf Sculpture
Purchased 1976
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
grass
non-representational
photographic
plants and flowers
<p>Long finished this work in Bristol in his second year on the Advanced Course. He cut the soil, removing the turf segments and configured its formal arrangement before making a photographic record. The cut turf was then relayed so that the segments would grow back into the earth.Critics have noted a connection between Long’s arrangement of the turf and the basic geometric shapes that characterised the formalist work of tutors such as Anthony Caro. Long has refuted this view by explaining the significance of the archetypal natural forms and the ephemerality of this intervention.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
paper print photograph black white
2 March 2007 – 2 September 2007
2007-09-02
2 March 2007
2007-03-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-03-02
St Martins Sculpture Department
Collection based display
Turf Sculpture
image: 229 × 229 mm
Purchased 1976
<p>Long finished this work in Bristol in his second year on the Advanced Course. He cut the soil, removing the turf segments and configured its formal arrangement before making a photographic record. The cut turf was then relayed so that the segments would grow back into the earth.Critics have noted a connection between Long’s arrangement of the turf and the basic geometric shapes that characterised the formalist work of tutors such as Anthony Caro. Long has refuted this view by explaining the significance of the archetypal natural forms and the ephemerality of this intervention. </p>

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abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities geometric grass non-representational photographic plants and flowers