New York-based artist Kon Trubkovich visited the site of Michael Heizer’s land art installation ‘Double Negative’ last year, in order to research and create a film and the series of graphite drawings that were published in Proenza Schouler’s A#9. He called the series ‘Double entrance/Double exit’ in homage to the original work, one of America’s original and most celebrated examples of land art.

‘Double Negative’ is Michael Heizer’s most famous work and is located in the Nevada desert. It is a 460m long, 9m wide, 15m deep trench that straddles a naturally carved canyon – a reflection of natural and man-made negative space. Trubkovich’s renderings of the massive earth formations are ghostly and alien – with the gouache and graphite drawings offering an aesthetic similar to surveillance cameras. The faint human forms visible in the pictures fade into the rocks, as though apparitions in this seemingly lunar landscape. kon showed the pieces as a solo exhibition at Museum 52 in London last year.

“Negative space = Indetermination. Indetermination = freedom. Within ‘double negativ’e exists a state of pure freedom. Pure freedom = lunacy. I always thought that this particular piece was Heizer’s self-portrait and I have always admired self-portraits. Rembrandt, Fosse, Courbet, Nauman, Beuys and Herzog made great self-portraits. They are my heroes of self-indulgence (lunatics). In my video and series of drawings ‘double entrance/double exit’ a man in an orange jumpsuit walks from one end of double negative to the other. When he enters he becomes part of an undetermined space full of possibilities. When he exits he is ready to continue a cycle of regeneration and failure. Exit = transformation.”
- Kon Trubkovich

“There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture.”
-Michael Heizer