To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Aspen Institute, Sculpting the Environment: The Three-Dimensional Art of Herbert Bayer provides the most comprehensive investigation to date of Bayer’s exploration of “the total environment,” or, as he put it in 1970, “the extension of my work into many areas of space." Focusing on his site-specific outdoor sculptures and land art, this exhibition brings together more than one hundred works by Bayer, including drawings, paintings, photographs, models, and maquettes—many on view for the first time. Elevating this prolific artist’s legacy as a boundary-breaking polymath whose Bauhaus training informed the genesis and execution of his environmental sculptures, the exhibition promises to deepen the viewer’s knowledge of Bayer’s relationship with the landscape. His particular fondness for Aspen, where he was given free rein to sculpt the Aspen Meadows into a gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, will be highlighted.
