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Walter De Maria

WALTER DE MARIA

360˚ I Ching DIA Beacon From 3 October 2026 New York
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From the moment he moved to New York from California in 1960, Walter De Maria began making work that foreshadowed much of the Minimal, Conceptual, and Land art movements of the following decade. His early experiments with wooden boxes that invite the viewer’s interaction and his quasi-invisible drawings evolved, by 1965, into polished-metal sculptures of high precision. In 1968, contending for the first time with earth as material and concept, De Maria filled an art gallery with dirt and drew two one-mile-long lines onto the dry salt lakes of California’s Mojave Desert, respectively.

At the turn of the 1970s and with the support of Dia, the artist began distributing his metal works horizontally and organizing them according to units and increments that grew laterally to room-size and, eventually, environmental-scale works. This exhibition presents 360˚ I Ching / 64 Sculptures (1981) from Dia’s collection, for which the artist arranged 576 white-lacquered rods into 64 groups in patterns determined by the hexagrams of I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of divination and a popular resource for artists interested in chance operations and aleatory compositional arrangements.

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About the Artist

Walter De Maria was involved in a range of movements within the art scene of 1960s New York. A pioneer of not only Minimalism and Conceptual art, but also Land art and Installation art, he is perhaps best known as a Land artist, alongside contemporaries such as Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson.

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About the Gallery

DIA Beacon is a renowned contemporary art museum situated in Beacon, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. Housed in a repurposed 1929 Nabisco box printing factory, its expansive galleries and minimalist architecture make it a destination for lovers of postwar art and industrial design.

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3 Beekman Street
Beacon
New York
United States
Opening Hours
January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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New York 3 Beekman Street, Beacon
DIA Beacon contemporary art institution in New York United States
DIA Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, New York, United States
+1 845 440 0100
http://www.diaart.org

Opening hours
January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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