ANDREW ROGERS CONTEMPORARY BRONZE SCULPTURE

Exhibiting  at ART PARK & SOHO GALLERIES

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Andrew Rogers is one of Australia's most distinguished and internationally recognized contemporary sculptors. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and has created "Rhythms of Life", the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of 40 massive stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. The project has involved over 5,500 people in 12 countries across five continents. 

"Rhythms of Life" comprises 40 large scale stone structures/Geoglyphs. Its creation has involved over 5,500 people in 12 countries across 5 continents, spanning a period of 11 years. These structures are in exotic disparate locations including deserts, fjords, gorges, national parks and altiplano. It is the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world and spans the globe. These connected drawings on the surface of the Earth refer to the physical building blocks of history and  civilization, while addressing the interconnection of humanity throughout time and space. Unique is an intent of this undertaking to have these drawings on the earth photographed by specifically commissioned satellites from a distance of 450 kilometres (280 miles) above the Earth revealing the structures as specks in space and a moment in time.

A purpose of the "Rhythms of Life" Land Art structures is to establish consecrated space. The structures denote the separation from the ordinary and provide contemplative settings.  

The Australian sculptor  began his personal artistic journey almost 30 years ago as a painter. But in the late 1980s, after numerous visits to the Musee Rodin, in Paris, he decided to give up painting to take up sculpture. "With sculpture we learn to perceive, to recognize differences, to clarify, to make a decision, and eventually one can see what it is that matters to create a form." 

Andrew Rogers specialises in monumental and landmark sculptures both figurative and abstract and has carried out an impressive number of commissions and has major works not only in Australia, but also in San Francisco, New Jersey, Dallas, Vienna, Kobe, Osaka, Singapore, Athens, Jerusalem, Taipei, Berkshire UK, and Machu Picchu in Peru. They range from a small intimate bronze, Resistance, presented to Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna, to Evolution a huge complex work  43 metres high.