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Article: Delight: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park celebrates thirty years with new work by Andy Goldsworthy.
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Twenty years ago, when Andy Goldsworthy was artist in residence at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), he wondered whether he could suspend a stalk screen between two branches 450mm apart. He has now returned to create the largest and most ambitious exhibition ever hosted there. In the Underground Gallery, Goldsworthy has transformed materials from the local landscape. Layered stone domes crowd into one room, appearing like tumuli, a mysterious black hole in the centre of each. The hole is a recurring theme in Goldsworthy's art; he sees it as a window on to the 'fragile, unpredictable and violent energy' present in nature. In Clay Room, the walls are completely covered in ...