GALLERY

Agnes Denes
Projects for Public Spaces

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Crystal Fort—Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie, 2000. Original design of a full size fortress made of glass, to be built along the Waterlinie as a major tourist attraction to create revenues for the reclamation plans laid out in the 25-year, 85 km masterplan by the artist.

(120x120x60 feet)
© 2000 Agnes Denes

Wheatfield—A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, (with Statue of Liberty across the Hudson)
2 acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on a landfill in Manhattan's financial district, summer 1982.

Commissioned by Public Art Fund, New York City.
© 1982 Agnes Denes

Wheatfield—A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, (The Harvest)
2 acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on a landfill in Manhattan's financial district, summer 1982.

Commissioned by Public Art Fund, New York City.
© 1982 Agnes Denes

Wheatfield—A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, (Green Wheat)
2 acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on a landfill in Manhattan's financial district, summer 1982.

Commissioned by Public Art Fund, New York City.
© 1982 Agnes Denes

Wheatfield—A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, (Agnes Denes in the wheatfield)
2 acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on a landfill in Manhattan's financial district, summer 1982.

Commissioned by Public Art Fund, New York City.
© 1982 Agnes Denes

Hypersphere—the Earth in the Shape of the Universe, 1986-87, Ceiling and lobby commission, first National Bank of Chicago, New York headquarters at Equitable Center, New York. 144 panels of carved and frosted Pink Rosa glass in two layers, 1300 sq ft. each

© copyright 1987, Agnes Denes

Irish Hunger Memorial (An Gorta Mor)

2000 © Agnes Denes

Memorial for a half -acre site at Battery Park City, New York.
Pencil, ink and gouache on silk vellum, 24x36"
© Copyright, Agnes Denes

Teardrop—Monument to Being Earthbound

1984 silver ink.
© 1984 Agnes Denes

Pascal's Perfect Probability Pyramid and the People Paradox—The Pradicament

(detail) India ink on silk vellum, 1980
© Agnes Denes

Flying Pyramid for the 22nd Century—Environmental Sculpture for the Miami Airport, Florida (coral rock, green ground cover, waterfeatures

1986-1990.  
787'x537 feet, ink & gouache on vellum, 22x17"
© 1990 Agnes Denes

Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule—11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years

(420x270x38 meters). (Original drawing, 1983) Ylöjärvi, Finland ,
1992-1996.

© 1996 Agnes Denes

Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule—11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years

(420x270x38 meters). (aerial view, showing mathematical pattern) Ylöjärvi, Finland 1992-1996.

© 1996 Agnes Denes

Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule—11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years

(summer view 2001) (420x270x38 meters), Ylöjärvi, Finland 1992-1996.
© 1996 Agnes Denes

Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule—11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years

(winter view, 2003) (420x270x38 meters), Ylöjärvi, Finland 1992-1996.
© 1996 Agnes Denes

Poetry Walk: Reflections—Pools of Thought

2000. 20 granites, 4x5 feet each, carved with poetry and writings by poets and philosophers from around the world were embedded into the lawn at the University of Virginia. 540x60 feet.  A permanent installation commissioned by the University and the University Art Museum, Charlottesville, Va.
© 2000 Agnes Denes

A Forest For Australia, (Projection of fully grown mountain) 6000 Trees of varying heights planted into 5 spirals to form step pyramids

1998. Commissioned by the Artists Museum
Altoona Treatment Plant, Melbourne, Australia (400x80 meters)
© 1998 Agnes Denes

Uprooted and Deified—The Golden Tree

2001. A fully grown tree was unearthed with its roots intact, then painted gold and installed horizontally in midair. Goteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal, Sweden, summer 2001.
© 2001 Agnes Denes

When The Pyramid Awakens

1994 Limited edition lithograph, blue ink with gold dusting on Arches cover White. 25x35 3/4"
© 1994 Agnes Denes