William Rockhill Nelson is said to have built “miles” of rock walls, and he chose to use native limestone quarried on his property for Oak Hall, the site where the Museum now sits. The origin of the proposal for Walking Wall developed from Goldsworthy’s observation of the volume of walls in Kansas City. These words have become connected to many of Goldsworthy’s works and specifically to stone walls including one of his largest public installations to date, the iconic Storm King Wall, a 2,278-foot wall that snakes through the Storm King Art Center in New York. In 1990 he constructed a wall in Cumbria, England that became locally known as the ‘Wall that went for a walk’ – a reference to the poem Wall by Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson which reads, in part: The resulting wall was an expression of exchange and cooperation. His first wall, ‘Give and Take Wall’, 1989, was made in response to a contractual need to establish a boundary between two fields in Scotland near to where the artist lives. Walking Wall continues Goldsworthy’s longstanding investigation into wall making their index of passing time, their inherent association to boundaries and the differences and dialogues between British and American doctrines to these boundaries, and their ability to reflect on permanence and the transient. Walking Wall would connect the inside of the Museum to the outside, but just as importantly it would enact on its own terms the literal and figurative journey that almost every object in the museum will have made before entering the collections there. Walking Wall will move from a five-acre piece of land east of the museum, onto the museum campus, and ultimately into the museum, drawing its way through the museum’s campus. The stone wall will fulfill Goldsworthy’s long-held vision of creating a wall that inches its way through a place. Over a period of five installments, the wall will literally move from the east part of the museum to its final resting place inside and outside the Bloch Building lenses. Jan 24, 2019– Acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy, who works with nature and time to create site-specific installations, will build Walking Wall in five successive sections at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 2019. Installation Honors Morton and Estelle Sosland Commissioned by Hall Family Foundation
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