Land art is a modern art movement that aims to place nature and natural materials at the heart of artistic creation.
This trend originated in the United States in the 1960s. Leading representatives include Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer.
The works, often gigantic, are integrated into an exceptional natural setting. Earthwork is a work whose basic material is earth.
In France, Antoine Grumbach has added an aerial art dimension to the concept of earthwork, inspired by the geoglyphs of Nazca in Peru. He designed “Les Yeux du Ciel” on the ECT site in Villeneuve-sous-Dammatin. This work represents 2 eyes, 400 meters long, excavated on ECT’s site for the reclamation of excavated earth from the construction industry.
