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Michael Heizer

American Artist

Born: 1944

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I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good. Michael Heizer

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I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do. Michael Heizer

Art Static Make Dynamic

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. Michael Heizer

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The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound. Michael Heizer

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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself. Michael Heizer

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I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe. Michael Heizer

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