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The Australian Way: Boulder & The Beautiful

The Australian Way, August 2010

On a glorious limestone hillside in Turkey’s Cappadocia, Andrew Rogers is supervising a team of 50 local carvers hewing the steps of an amphitheatre out of the earth. Beneath them, workers with a crane are hoisting a pillar of rock the height of a four-storey building off the back of a groaning truck. These are the final stages of a vast artistic endeavour four and a half years in the making, and you can see it all from the amphitheatre’s steps: 10 stone-wall and basalt sculptures extending two and a half kilometres down the valley, so big you can see them from space.

This is Time and Space, a collection of geoglyphs, or land art, and it is creativity on an epic scale. The installation in Cappadocia is big – 10,500 tons of stone, seven kilometres of rock walls – but not unique, for this is the 12^th location in which Melbourne-based Rogers has worked: 40 sculptures built by 5,500 pairs of hands on five continents, from Iceland to Slovakia, Bolivia to the Gobi Desert, Chile to Geelong. In sum, it is easily the largest contemporary artistic installation in the world.

See this article is it ran here: qa0810_Landscape.indd

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