Alan Sonfist

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 d [...]
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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.