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Eduardo Navarro
Letters to Earth2017

Not on view
Low rectangular sculpture with olive-tan sides, topped with loose brown soil scattered with roughly one hundred gold-finished walnut-like objects
Installation of dried nuts or seeds scattered across a square bed of fine brown soil, photographed from directly above against a gray surface.
Floor installation: a low rectangular dark olive-green platform filled with compacted soil, scattered with dozens of small gold-colored walnut-shaped forms arranged irregularly across the surface.
Artist or Maker
Eduardo Navarro
Argentina, Buenos Aires, born 1979
Title
Letters to Earth
Date Made
2017
Medium
100 walnuts cast in bronze and contract
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Juan and Florence Ball
Accession Number
M.2019.213.1-.100
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.

Copyright
© Eduardo Navarro

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