Avant Arte on Instagram: "Agnes Denes’ ‘Tree Mountain’ is a monumental earthwork in Finland – over a thousand feet long and hundreds of feet wide – created to restore land devastated by mining. She worked with 11,000 people from around the world to plant 11,000 pine trees in an intricate formation based on the golden ratio. Each planter received an inheritable certificate – valid for 20 generations – naming them and their descendants as custodians of their tree."

Avant Arte on Instagram: "Fifty years ago, at the 1975 Paris Biennale, American artist Gordon Matta-Clark carved a massive cone-shaped void through two derelict 17th-century buildings, allowing passers-by to peek through to the construction site of the now world-renowned Centre Pompidou. The installation, titled ‘Conical Intersect’, and spiralled through walls, doors, and the attic roof. Having prompted questions about gentrification and the role of public art, ‘Conical Intersect’ was eventually

Avant Arte on Instagram: "Do you know why the Angel of the North is in Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Years Later’? Anthony Gormley’s monumental sculpture is one of Britain’s most iconic public artworks, standing in Gateshead, England. “The Angel was always about remembrance,” the artist told The New York Times, reflecting on Margaret Thatcher’s dismantling of British industry that gravely affected the north east’s coal mining community during her governance. In ‘28 Years Later’ – influenced by post-Brexit B