Media: Wheat
Dimensions: Two acres
Date:1982
Agnes Denes was born in Hungary in 1931, moved to Sweden and eventually came to the United States. Denes pioneered a unique interdisciplinary approach to the concept of art, exploring interactions of physical and social sciences with different artforms. She has shown her art in more than 450 exhibitions worldwide and has won a number of awards from institutions such as the Carnegie Mellon University and MIT. She holds several honorary doctorates. Considered one of the founders of the environmental art movement, she is best known for her monumental and often controversial land-art projects.
For her work :Wheatfield: A Confrontation", Denes harvested 1000 pounds of wheat from a field she had planted on two acres of land fill near downtown Manhattan, and planted seeds from the harvest in different regions around the world. Denes commented on her artwork: "Food, energy, commerce, world trade, economics. It referred to mismanagement, waste, world hunger, and ecological issues".
Artist's website
http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/index.html
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