LEONARDO DICAPRIO TO DONATE JOHN GERRARD’S SOLAR RESERVE TO LACMA
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio plans to donate Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada), 2014, a large-scale installation by the Irish artist John Gerrard, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Staged outside Lincoln Center in New York last year, the piece will also be shown at Art Basel next week by London gallerist Thomas Dane, according to the Art Newspaper’s Charlotte Burns.
Gerrard’s piece depicts computer-simulated views of the ten thousand mirrors, on the grounds of a Nevada solar power plant, that track the sun and moon’s orbits. Burns notes that DiCaprio’s gift is “intended to raise public awareness of environmental issues”: The actor founded an eponymous foundation in 1998 to support conservation of land, oceans, and species, and to provide disaster relief.
The piece comes in an edition of five (plus two artists’ proofs), with one owned by the Borusan Museum in Istanbul and another now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
