HENRY MOORE: BACK TO A LAND │ Yorkshire Sculpture Park → 6 September 2015

“Born in Caslfd, West Ywcšr, Henri Mur (1898–1986) z wn v ɖ most impwtnt artists v ɖ 20^ʈ senčri. Đs mêjr xibišn, in c̣laḅrešn wɖ Ɖ Henri Mur Fândešn, têcs a freš aproč t Mur’z wrc bî cnsidrñ hiz pṛfând rlešnšp wɖ land, wč wz funḍmntl t hiz practis n fyld hiz vižl vcabylri.”

Ɖ mistri v ẇt z undr ɖ šrâd z smẇt acin t ɖ mistri in powtri. It z ɖs eḷmnt v ɖ uņon ɖt fasinets m in cevz n ɖ houlz in ɖ sîdz v hilz – y d’nt nô ẇt z ɖr untl y lc n xplor intu ɖm. Mistri plez a lj n inlîvnñ pāt in âr lîvz; nt nwñ bt wntñ t nô, wundrñ n gesñ, qesčnñ n xplorñ. (Henri Mur, 1974)

A fândñ pêtṛn v YSP, Mur wz cmitd t šowñ hiz wrc in ɖ ôpn er, n in ɖ rolñ hilz v ɖ fwmr Dírpāc in ptklr.

Ɖ xibišn nt onli xplorz ɖ ātist’s radicl nošn v plêsñ sculpčr in ɖ landscep – lj-scêl sculpčrz grīt ɖ vizitr on arîvl at ɖ Pāc n r dspled agnst ɖ bytifl n historic visṭz v ɖ Boʈīgādn – bt ɖ impwtns v ŕʈ in Mur’z crietv ʈncñ. Āčroc, Îsbrg, Roci Landscep n nymṛs uɖr drōñz, sm rerli sīn in public, alñ wɖ a renj v sculpčrz xplorñ scêl n ɖ inṭple btwn intrnl n xtrnl spêsz, emfsîz ɖ ātist’s constnt invstigešn v land, fṛm ɖ blac colsìmz v hiz homtân n ɖ rič jioḷji v Britn, t ɖ mistcl ênčnt fwmz v Stônhenj.

Ɖ xibišn olso priznts an oṗtyṇti t xplor ɖ man bhnd ɖ practis wɖ a cerfli ṣlctd dsple v prsnl āṭfacts, nôts, scečz n fôṭgrafs, kretd in c̣laḅrešn wɖ ɖ ātist’s dwtr, Mẹri Mur.

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