America gives birth to artists who only resemble its great outdoors, those who forged the life and mythology of its first occupants.
After the war, unique movements flourished in this New World, minimal art, Land Art.
Richard Nonas is somewhere between these two borders, a sort of thinker who would survey the universe in search of a new scale whose art would be the tool, the measure of man.
The Christophe Gaillard gallery, which exhibited him in Paris, announced his death at the age of 85 in New York on the evening of May 12.
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Born in New York in 1936, Richard Nonas came to art through literature and social anthropology (ethnology) which he studied at the University of Michigan, Columbia University and the University of North Carolina.
He worked ten years as an anthropologist, doing field research with American Indians in northern Ontario (Canada), northern Mexico and southern Arizona.
He turned to sculpture
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