Meg Webster
San Francisco, California 1944
Photo credit Axel Hutte, 1988 / Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Her real originality and uniqueness is to be found in the earthworks. (...) Her tumuli though do not make us think of sepulchers and death but, rather, of our mother-nature that feeds us with her fruits and who will then accept us in its depths when we have ceased to exist.
Meg Webster, Copper Holding Form, 1991. Copper, 146,7 × 47,6 × 11,7 cm. © Meg Webster. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Panza Collecton, Mendrisio. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Meg Webster, Slipped Cone with Flat Top, 1983. Packed earth, 157,4 x 335,2 x 152,4 cm. © Meg Webster. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Collezione Panza, Gift, 1996. Installation Villa Panza, Varese. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Meg Webster, Cone of Water, 1989. Earth, rubber liner, water, 121,9 x ∅ 579,1 cm. © Meg Webster. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, Gift, 1992. Photo Meg Webster, New York
Installation Natura Naturans. Roxy Paine e Meg Webster (opere dal 1982 al 2015), FAI Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, June 12, 2015 - May 15, 2016. Meg Webster, Mother Mound, 1990. © Meg Webster. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Collection of Dia Art Foundation, 2019. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Rosa Giovanna Magnifico Panza di Biumo and PanzaCollection would like to thank the artist, the family and the institutions for granting image publishing.