Archinect - News 2024-05-04T02:57:52-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/78067070/walter-de-maria-artist-on-grand-scale-dies-at-77 Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 anthony dong 2013-07-28T01:15:00-04:00 >2013-07-28T01:15:46-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/q1/q1yuyr93z1tp7z1m.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>He was best known for large-scale outdoor works that often involved simple if rather extravagant ideas or gestures: a SoHo loft filled with two feet of earth, for example, or a solid brass rod two inches in diameter and one kilometer long driven into the ground in Kassel, Germany, so that only its smooth top was visible (a work consistent with an artist who once noted that &ldquo;the invisible is real&rdquo;).</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>