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ANDREW ROGERS - SILICON BRONZE Exhibting at Art Park, 321 KENT STREET FOYER, SYDNEY
The Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers 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. Unquestionably his most dramatic commission is to be found in the Arava Desert of Southern Israel. Here he has created a gigantic piece of calligraphy based on the Jewish symbol Chai – the Hebrew word for life. Following in the tradition of ancient geoglyphs such as the mysterious Nasca lines of Peru, he used materials found on the site and worked on a gigantic scale. Designed by an Australian, assisted by three Israeli architecture students and built by a team of Arab stonemasons, Chai was a positive example of international co-operation as well as a permanent symbol of the affirmation of life.
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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.
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