Walter de Maria: The Singular Experience

The exhibition presents Walter De Maria’s final sculpture, “Truck Trilogy”, shown for the first time outside of the US, this October 2025, the month that would have marked De Maria’s 90th birthday. Incorporating 3 classic pickup trucks from the 1950s, the sculpture has been presented only once before, at Dia Beacon in New York, from 2017 to 2019. Shown alongside a selection of other rarely seen sculptures, drawings, films, and archival materials, “Truck Trilogy” is the centerpiece of an exhibition that illuminates De Maria’s lifelong preoccupation with precise measurement and the imagined. “The Singular Experience” is curated by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator at Dia Art Foundation, the entity that commissioned, maintains, and manages access to the sites of De Maria’s world-renowned permanent installations: “The Lightning Field” (1977), “The Broken Kilometer” (1979), “The New York Earth Room” (1977), and “The Vertical Earth Kilometer” (1977).