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Alan Sonfist gained prominence in 1965 by creating the first urban forest in New York City, The Time Landscape, a re-creation of a pre-Colonial forest within a modern day city. Incorporating concepts of an area's natural and cultural histories, Sonfist has also created landscape sculptures in such diverse areas as Tuscany, Italy (Circles of Time, 1989), Duisberg, Germany (Timeline, 1981), Pori, Finland (Natural/Cultural Landscape[trademark] of Pori, 1995), and Tampa, Florida (Natural/Cultural Landscape[trademark] of Tampa, 1995). He is currently working on a Narrative Landscape, 'The Gold Trail', outside Montreal.
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid-1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social or historical - that surrounds us. Alan Sonfist is that rare species of artist - not just a pioneer in a particular form or approach but a real trailblazer whose ideas have remained consistently interesting over the course of an entire career. No history of post-war art would be complete without an acknowledgement of his achievement.
