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Agnes Denes

Public Projects / Environmental Installations

Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule:
11,000 Trees, 11,000 people, 400 years
1992-1996

Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan
1982

Drawings

Map Projections

Colorbursts

Writings

"Manifesto, Mathematics in My Work & Other Essays"

"Notes on a Visual Philosophy"

"Uprooted & Deified - The Golden Tree"
A fully grown tree was unearthed with its roots intact, painted gold, and installed horizontally in midair.
Goteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal, Sweden, summer 2001, and the Venice Biennale of 2003

"Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule: 11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years"
1992-96
420x270x28 meters, Ylöjärvi, Finland
Eleven thousand trees were planted in a complex mathematical pattern by eleven thousand people from around the world, to be maintained for 400 years.

"Wheatfield - A Confrontation"
Battery Park Landfill, downtown Manhattan, Two acres of wheat planted and harvested, Summer 1982

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