[no title] by Richard Long

[no title] 1994

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Dimensions: image: 825 x 517 mm

Copyright: © Richard Long | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate

Curator: This is a work by Richard Long, held in the Tate Collections, consisting of an image measuring 825 by 517 millimeters. Editor: It feels like a visual maze, a path inward made of earthy marks on rough paper. Simple, but strangely captivating. Curator: Indeed. Long's work often explores the relationship between walking, landscape, and art, reducing experiences to fundamental geometric forms. Editor: Those earthy marks—they almost look like footprints, each one a step. There's a quiet rhythm to the piece. Curator: The formal repetition and minimalist aesthetic engage with structuralist ideas. The spiral offers a sense of progression. Editor: It’s a meditation, I think. The kind of thing you get lost in, like a good walk in the woods. Curator: I find the work compelling as a study in pure form. Editor: I agree, and also find myself wanting to trace my own path. It's oddly personal.

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tate 13 days ago

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tate 13 days ago

Untitled is a suite of three lithographic prints signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of forty. This suite is number twenty-five in the edition. The lithographs were printed on Nepalese hemp paper by James Miller and Maurice Sánchez at Derrière L’Etoile Studios in New York. They were published by Brooke Alexander Editions, New York. The geometric patterns they depict were created from fingerprints made in a thick, mud-like substance on mylar. Long used the tip of his index finger to imprint the marks. The resulting diagrams were made into plates and printed in black ink on sand-coloured paper.