Holt currently works with a Dutch team in editing the video Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, including the original film footage she shot in 1971, and video recently shot recently in Emmen by a Dutch crew. – Amarillo, Texas, 1973. július 20.) “The strata of the Earth is a jumbled museum,” he once mused. Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York.. Career. Robert Smithson’s towering esteem is predicated on his ability to manifest entropy, which explains his absence from this text. Smithson’s writings on art, western culture, graphic texts, and interviews, are published in The Writings of Robert Smithson, edited by Nancy Holt (1979, New York University Press, with an expanded version edited by Jack Flam published in 1998). Robert Smithson, Writer: Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, 1971-2011. Robert Smithson was a seminal American artist and writer known for pioneering the Land Art movement.His monumental earthen sculptures such as Spiral Jetty (1970), were inspired by the Minimalist work of his contemporaries, as well as geology, science fiction, and the concept of entropy. A pivotal figure in the evolution of post-war sculpture, Robert Smithson created iconic Land art that radically changed prevailing ideas about the making and viewing of art. Primordial Beginnings investigates Smithson’s exploration of, as he said in 1972, “origins and primordial beginnings, […] the archetypal nature of things. Robert Smithson: Hypothetical Islands With works largely drawn from the collection of his wife, Nancy Holt, Smithson’s hypothetical islands are here brought to life through drawing, sculpture and film. Robert Smithson was a seminal American artist and writer known for pioneering the Land Art movement.His monumental earthen sculptures such as Spiral Jetty (1970), were inspired by the Minimalist work of his contemporaries, as well as geology, science fiction, and the concept of entropy. Robert Smithson. Der amerikanische Künstler Robert Smithsons wird, besonders wegen seiner Schriften und größeren Projekte in der Landschaft als einer der Hauptvertreter Land Art gesehen. Paper: 11 x 18 in. Robert Smithson: Primordial Beginnings is currently on view at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris and will be on show though to January 9, 2021. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty. Smithson (1938-73) came of age in the 1960s when a flurry of knotty movements, ideas and adherences were gaining purchase – minimalism, land art, psychogeography, site-specific art, video art and more. In Robert Smithson: Time Crystals, which has been developed in partnership with Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Australian audiences will encounter film, sculptural works, texts, photography, slides, and drawings that touch on Smithson’s boundless thinking.. Robert Smithson expressed a profound interest in the arts from an early age. Robert Smithson gehört wohl zu jenen zeitgenössischen Künstlern, die ein nur kleines Oeuvre hinterlassen und relativ unbekannt sind und doch einen immensen Einfluß auf die Ausprägung künstlerischer Ideen ausüben. 1841 in Norfolk, ENG. While Smithson was venturing into mine sites and quarries, the artists representing that era in TO LIFE! “The strata of the Earth is a jumbled museum,” he once mused. Künstlersuche Robert Smithson Artnews hat für Sie die wichtigsten Kunstlexika und Kunstbücher durchblättert, Galerien und Auktionshäuser befragt, unzählige Kunstdatenbanken, Künstlerlisten, Websites und Bildarchive nach Robert Smithson durchsucht und die relevantesten Informationsquellen für Sie zusammengestellt. Robert Smithson als Vertreter der Land Art. A.N. Working with unconventional materials including soil, rocks, disused industrial sites, and language, the artist explored the metaphorical qualities inherent in geological formations and the process of entropy. This book, like the science of ecology, is a study of life. Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism (especially in architectural and urban theory). Smithson a konceptuális művészet és a land art határterületén helyezkedik el. He was married to Nancy Holt. Robert Smithson was born on January 2, 1938 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, located at Rozel Point on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake in Utah, is one of the most remarkable examples of Land art. Robert Smithson seems to tell us in what ways art can help in this process - for example, by providing novel bases of comparison and inspiration, like the purely esthetic comparison that led him to propose a unit of scientific measure that echoes the image of a crystal. Robert Smithson Biografische Notizen: Robert Smithson 1938 in Passaic / NJ - 1973 in Tecovas Lake / TX USA Medium: Land-Art-Projekte, Objekte, Zeichnungen, Filme, Fotografie Robert Smithsons bekannteste Arbeit ist das monumentale, im Great Salt Lake in Utah realisierte Werk „Spiral Jetty“- eine etwa 500 m lange Spirale aus Steinen, Erde, Salz und roten Algen. He married Sarah Crome on 16 November 1819 in Hainford, Norfolk, ENG909. Robert Smithson: Hypothetical Islands, installation view, Marian Goodman Gallery, London. If there ever was a geophilosopher before Gilles Deleuze, it was certainly Robert Smithson, the prematurely deceased artist and critic who, since the mid-1960s and through the early 1970s, explored the American land with a keen eye for natural history, industrial ruins, suburban civilisation, rock strata and salt crystals. October 31, 2020. amerikai land art művész. The work of Robert Smithson comes tightly wrapped in some ­unforgiving artistic concepts. —Robert Smithson. Wir erfuhren mehr, als wir analysieren können. ” Friday Film Program: Season 2. Robert Smithson focused his short but influential career on a reconsideration of the nature of sculpture—or, rather, of sculpture in relation to nature. Read artistic legacy. That is what “artist-consultant” Robert Smithson tells us. Der amerikanische Künstler Robert Smithsons wird, besonders wegen seiner Schriften und größeren Projekte in der Landschaft als einer der Hauptvertreter Land Art gesehen. Robert Smithson, (born Jan. 2, 1938, Passaic, N.J., U.S.—died July 20, 1973, Amarillo, Texas), American sculptor and writer associated with the Land Art movement.His large-scale sculptures, called Earthworks, engaged directly with nature and were created by moving and constructing with vast amounts of soil and rocks.. Smithson preferred to work with ruined or exhausted sites in nature. Robert Smithson’s interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science-fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. ROBERT SMITHSON UND KYBERNETIK: SPRACHE, TECHNOLOGIE UND ABSTRAKTION Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie am Fachbereich Geschichts — und Kulturwissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin und an der Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis Ecole Doctorale Esthétique, Sciences et Technologies des Arts vorgelegt von Maud MAFFEI 2016 . (For more info on Robert Smithson, go to www.robertsmithson.com – from which I have borrowed the images of his works for this post). Notes for Robert SMITHSON: Robert Smithson's occupation was that of labourer. Robert Smithson (Passaic, New Jersey, 1938. január 2. His works are in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, Museum of Modern Art New … Robert Smithson presents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery and specially commissioned photography of the artist's works; it considers the interrelationship of Smithson's complete artistic output, from the earliest figurative work up to his famed earthworks. He was a writer and director, known for Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, 1971-2011 (2011), Spiral Jetty (1970) and Mono Lake (2004). Marian Goodman, London (48.6 x 64.8 x 4 cm) $ 45,000. !841 Census reports that Sarah was living in Stratton Strawless. Robert Smithson, "A Heap of Language" (1966); pencil on paper, 6.5" x 22" Click on image to see larger version in a new window. Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist famous for his land art.. Background and education. Created during a brief period from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Smithson’s provocative works spanned a variety of sites beyond the museum and gallery, from magazine pages to abandoned industrial and natural wastelands. Robert Smithson Sedimentation als ästhetischer Prozess. For two years, he was enrolled at The Art Students League in New York and, for a briefer period, at The Brooklyn Museum School. Inquire. Read full biography. He died on July 20, 1973. "Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Land art első nagy figurája. Ink and gouache on paper. Early work. With … Science and technology cannot advance alone. Tevékenysége a minimalista művészetből indult. They Scooted Across, 1961-1963. Photo: Lewis Ronald. Museums, like asylums and jails, have wards and cells -- in other words, neutral rooms called 'galleries.' Robert Smithson als Vertreter der Land Art. Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah… Smithson maps the area through drifting, siting the interaction of artificial activities and Earth's reaction, what he calls monuments. (27.9 x 45.7 cm) Frame: 19 1/8 x 25 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. Robert SMITHSON (son of Robert SMITHSON and Mary DEERFIELD)908 was born 1795 in Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, England, and died Bef. "Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. While still attending high school in Clifton, New Jersey, during the mid 1950s, he attended art classes on the side in New York City. Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson’s Writings on Entropy, 1966-67: 0: 0. Whitehoad. Robert Smithson review – art with a dose of extreme sports 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. ROBERT SMITHSON … Tisztán gondolkodó, számos írást publikáló művészről van szó. 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