Walter De Maria, Experience as Form

The exhibition Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience offers a compact yet incisive reconsideration of an artist who redefined the relationship between measurement, form and perception. The presentation highlights the radical nature of his research, grounded in numerical sequences, rigorous geometries and an understanding of space as a physical encounter before it is a visual one. Sculptures and serial works converse with films and drawings that reveal a practice far less easily categorised than its usual association with Land Art suggests - De Maria emerges as an artist capable of merging mathematical precision, metaphysical tension and a subtle irony that destabilises any sense of certainty. At the core is the idea of a “singular experience”, conceived as a direct form of engagement in which viewers are invited to confront works that resist passive observation and instead demand an active presence. The exhibition conveys the complexity of an artist who treated form as discipline and perception as a field of freedom, allowing an energy to surface that still challenges the ways we look at, measure and inhabit space.