River of Earth Art Refuge

The Gassendi Museum is the starting point for the walk and the project
Refuges d'Art, his “base camp”.
River of Earth, a monumental clay wall of more than 50 m2, is housed in the
fourth floor of the building, in a vast space: the landscape room.
This room confronts two visions of the idea of ​​landscape: the romantic vision
and tradition of Provençal painters influenced by the ideals of Frédéric
Mistral and the contemporary vision of Andy Goldsworthy who uses clay, a
original component of the landscape, to create River of Earth.
The museum also presents a set of preparatory drawings by the artist as well as a set of photographs of the founding ephemeral work of Goldsworthy's work at Digne: the Cairn of Digne.