* * * NEW EXHIBITION AND BOOK RELEASE * * * ARTIST REVEALS 10-YEAR PROCESS OF LAND ART PROJECTS IN 12 COUNTRIES 97 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS & SHORT FILM UNVEIL MAJESTY OF SCULPTURES Andrew Rogers: Odysseys and Sitings (1998 – 2008) White Box, New York: April 8 – May 13, 2009   April 22, 2009 – NEW YORK:  Australian artist Andrew Rogers announces the first exhibition devoted to the entire Rhythms of Life project, the world’s largest contemporary land art undertaking.  From April 8 - May 13, the non-profit arts organization White Box ( www.whiteboxny.org) will present Andrew Rogers: Odysseys and Sitings (1998 – 2008), a selection of 97 large-scale photographs of Rogers’s groundbreaking outdoor art project.  Organized by Lilly Wei, a New York-based independent curator and critic, the exhibition will showcase aerial and satellite photographs of 32 sculptures created over a period of 10 years, marking the first time these images will be publicly displayed together.  Also on view will be a looped, 25-minute film that documents the artist’s extraordinary process.  Rogers has spent the last decade engaging over 5,000 people in 12 countries on five continents to create stone sculptures in deserts, fjords, gorges, national parks and on mountainous slopes.  Often working for months on end, engaging hundreds of local workers and even the army of China to help him erect his visionary installations, Rogers engages the communities where his works are created, devising to build structures with local significance, and providing sustaining support to maintain the mammoth artworks.  Following each project’s completion, Rogers photographs the work himself either from a helicopter 500 feet aloft or from a satellite stationed 279 miles above ground. The New York exhibition coincides with the release of a large-format monograph: Andrew Rogers: geoglyphs, rhythms of life, published by Charta and distributed by DAP (Distributed Art Publishers, www.artbook.com). The 464-page book features some 1,500 color images of all project sites, a first-person account by Rogers himself, and essays by noted art critics Eleanor Heartney and Lilly Wei.   About Rhythms of Life Rhythms of Life forms a chain of 32 stone sculptures, or geoglyphs, positioned at 12 sites around the world.  Constructed of earth and rocks, and following the contours of the natural landscape, Rogers’s land sculptures each measure up to 430,000 square feet in area, and range in height from 3 to 14 feet. Designed in conjunction with select architects and a team of local workers, the structures refer to the physical building blocks of history and civilization, while addressing the cycle of life and the interconnection of humanity throughout time and space.   Rogers began the project in Israel’s Arava Desert in 1998 and has since created artworks on five continents: in Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Iceland, China, India, Turkey, Nepal, Slovakia, and the United States.  At each site, the project is initiated with a celebration that draws on local customs, such as traditional dancing and singing in China, sharing of wine and coca in Chile or the sacrifice of a llama in Bolivia.  To create the land sculptures, Rogers and his crews battle the elements, including freezing snow in Iceland, 110-degree heat in an Israeli desert and altitude of 14,000 feet in the Bolivian Andes. Upcoming projects include Time and Space, the largest contemporary land art park in the world located in Goreme, Turkey, about one hour’s flight from Istanbul. Consisting of 7 sculptures conceived by Andrew Rogers and built by hand by some 600 local workers, together these structures measure greater than 7 linear km (4.4 linear mi), covering an area of 4 square km (1.5 square mi), and comprise more than 10,500 tons of local stone. The installation of the remaining 5 works will be May 4 - 14, 2009, near Rogers’s 2 existing sculptures in Cappadocia, about ¼ mile from Goreme. Upcoming projects include Time and Space, the largest contemporary land art park in the world located in Goreme, Turkey, about one hour’s flight from Istanbul. Consisting of 7 sculptures conceived by Andrew Rogers and built by hand by some 600 local workers, together these structures measure greater than 7 linear km (4.4 linear mi), covering an area of 4 square km (1.5 square mi), and comprise more than 10,500 tons of local stone. The installation of the remaining 5 works will be May 4 - 14, 2009, near Rogers’s 2 existing sculptures in Cappadocia, about ¼ mile from Goreme. About the Artist Andrew Rogers is one of Australia’s most renowned sculptors. His works are included in private and public collections in Australia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. For more information, see www.andrewrogers.com Listing Information: Exhibition Dates: April 8 – May 13, 2009     Reception with the artist: Wednesday, April 22: 10 -- 11 am White Box Info: 329 Broome Street T: (212) 714-2347   www.whiteboxny.org  Gallery Hours:   Wednesday - Sunday, 11am – 7pm   Media Inquiries: Stacy Bolton Communications T: (212).721.5350 F: (212) 721 0780 E: Stacy@StacyBolton.com       Image Caption: The Gift, 2007, Cappadocia, Turkey, 60m x 60m. Photographed by Rogers in a hot air balloon. Courtesy the artist.