This encouraged the water's unique red-violet coloration, because it produced a concentration of salt-tolerant bacteria and algae. Download image; VICEVERSA. The frames have intricate narratives, hand-carved in an Art Nouveau style in reference to Alphonse Mucha and opiate use that subvert traditional ideas of foreground and background. Smithson begann seine künstlerische Ausbildung noch als Oberschüler im Alter von fünfzehn Jahren mit einem Studium an der Art Students League in New York, das er auch fortsetzte, als er 1956 an der Brooklyn Museum School studierte. Smithson would continue to explore the theme of vision throughout his later work - particularly in pieces involving mirrors - but he soon abandoned figurative drawing. (Writings, 375). Variables. Deeper than the ruins of concentration camps, are worlds more frightening, worlds more meaningless. The artist unfortunately died before any of those projects could be completed. Art. 38105 images are available with authorization; descriptions are openly available.. People affiliated with the University of Michigan can log in to view them. "Robert Smithson Artist Overview and Analysis". That impressive roster of extinctions pales, however, in comparison to the warming trend of our time, a trend of our own making; a just-released report from the WWF states that wildlife populations on Earth have declined by more than 50% in the forty years from 1970 to 2010. Who was paying attention to this impending calamity forty years ago? Debons Claire, Kültür Yagmur. The Laocoön’s torturous Dionysian extravagance challenged the serene classicism of the sculptor’s early period and the influence of its figures can be seen his dynamic later works. And many critics who saw this work in Smithson's first solo show at the Dwan Gallery in 1966 identified him as a leading Minimalist. Media. Vortrag 13. **Smithson, “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey” (1967), in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, 74. *Claude Lévi-Strauss, Race and History (1952), Unesco, 32. There is a light patina of impressions, indentations, and dings throughout image including Smithson's inscription on verso showing through, visible only in raking light. November 2019, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main. Robert Smithson expressed a profound interest in the arts from an early age. While the Site pieces generally used material from outside the gallery - rocks, rubble - which was piled in low containers, the Mirror Displacements saw the materials simply dumped in heaps on the floor and divided up by mirrors. Aug 6, 2016 - pleoros: “Robert Smithson - Asphalt Rundown, 1969 ” The ramp has slowly eroded since its construction; thus, like all of Smithson's mature Earthworks, it will eventually succumb to the elements, much like natural landscapes themselves. Beschreibung einzelner Werke in Hinblick auf Den Entropieansatz Von Smithson The sculpture turned out to be none other than the famous Laocoön group, the dramatic portrayal of the Trojan priest and his sons in the throes of death, snared in the coils of sea serpents. At the start of the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago the planet’s warming climate spurred the swift development of agriculture, technology and cities. Meindert Hobbema: The Wagon at the top of the Hill, nd. In particular, the work is made of a series of stepped units that are positioned such that they slowly increase (or decrease) in size; this sense of progression is quite different from the kind of straightforward repetition employed by Judd's sculpture. And while the Site pieces always contained a component situated in the gallery, the Mirror Displacement pieces were sometimes situated outside - as was this example, which was set up in Oxted Quarry in England. Uploaded by. Robert Smithson. Smithson begann seine künstlerische Ausbildung noch als Oberschüler im Alter von fünfzehn Jahren mit einem Studium an der Art Students League in New York, das er auch fortsetzte, als er 1956 an der Brooklyn Museum School studierte. Januar 1938 in Passaic, New Jersey; † 20. Smithson’s question is to be taken as a serious proposition. Renaissance art had always been torn between pagan humanism and Christian pieties, but the Laocoön provoked a culture shock by bodying forth a virtually traumatizing scene of agony and unredeemed sacrifice. The northern section of the Great Salt Lake, where Smithson chose to site Spiral Jetty, was cut off from fresh water supplies when a nearby causeway was constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1959. It is one of a series of early drawings from 1960 to 1962 that explores the themes of vision and blindness. Jan 11, 2014 - King Kong meets the Gem of Egypt / Partially Buried Wood Shed. Filed under Critical Ecology, Uncategorized, Tagged as Glacial erratics, Michael Heizer "Levitated Mass", Robert Smithson "Asphalt Rundown", Robert Smithson "Glue Pour", “Never Demolish!” On Housing Rights in Pandemic Times, The University in Runes: Decoding Privatized Space, The Strange Non-Death of a Supreme Court Nomination. Aftermath is defined by a process of becoming, whether it is through physical transformations or intangible shifts in perception. Earthwork. A primary form as the central startingpoint of the extension,however, was lacking.In one drawing, the rectangularloadingareas of four trucks are the source of an entropy of 1000 tons of Asphalt.30The dried asphalt was the trace of an action, which referred to an absent Robert SMITHSON Äsphalt Rundown, li969 (Roma, ltaly) source, an absent center. Robert Smithson. Smithson’s entropic projects are not only a challenge to art history but to history itself; his vision of time telescopes into the prehistoric, geological past and an obsolescent posthuman future. Robert Smithson Born in Passaic, USA , in 1938; died in Amarillo, USA , in 1973.. Robert Smithson, an American artist and writer active in the 1960s and early ’70s, is perhaps best known for his so-called “earthworks.” Smithson died tragically in a plane crash in 1973 at the age of thirty-five while surveying the west Texas landscape as the site for a new earthwork, Amarillo Ramp. Inscribed by the artist in pencil verso. Jan 13, 2015 - This Pin was discovered by Robert Arnold. Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown, Rome, Italy, 1969. Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, water coil - Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Type. Inscribed by the artist in pencil verso. Toggle navigation. Smithson described the difference between the two kinds of work: "In other Non-sites, the container was rigid, the material amorphous. At one time the ramp emerged from an artificial body of water called Tecovas Lake, which has since dried out. The coiling structure of the piece was inspired by the growth patterns of crystals, yet it also resembles a primeval symbol, making the landscape seem ancient, even while it also looks futuristic. Asphalt Rundown (1969). In 1506 a large sculpture lost since antiquity was found buried in a Roman vineyard. detail, truck pouring asphalt. As mentioned by Smithson (2016), his intention was to “root it in the contour of the land, so that it’s permanently there & subject to the [sic] weathering”. Juli 1973 in Texas) war ein US-amerikanischer Maler und Land-Art-Künstler. Smithson particularly liked the combination of colors because it evoked a ruined and polluted sci-fi landscape. This short documentary presents an overview of those works by Robert Smithson that involved the pouring of viscous substances such as glue, asphalt and cement. Semester. He loaded a dump truck with hot asphalt, and then had the truck discharge the contents down the sides of a quarry, so that the mixture cooled and hardened as it fell, ultimately seeming to fuse with the sides of the quarry. Great Salt Lake, Utah. Lytle Shaw: Golden Age Smithson . 15.11.2012 - Holt/Smithson Foundation exists to continue the creative and investigative spirit of the artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-73). Asphalt Rundown (1969) - Robert Smithson - YouTube Excerpt from 'Rundown', 1969.A sequence from a film of Smithson's 'rundowns' in several locations. Asphalt Rundown. Robert Smithson (* 2. Word of the find spread fast, the Pope himself became involved, and a thirty-year-old Michelangelo was among those present at the excavation. The transport of the enormous boulder through the LA region entailed complex logistics and specialized equipment, and spectators gathered along the drought-stricken route as the boulder’s custom-built transporter slowly traveled its 100-mile journey from a quarry in the desert, burning prehistoric diesel fuel for a full 11 days. Collection Access; There are no openly available images. Ink on paper - Estate of Robert Smithson, James Cohan Gallery, New York. Upload, livestream, and create your own videos, all … His unfinished slaves, for instance, seem to writhe helplessly in a mineral substance as suffocating as the Laocoön’s serpents. If such a dialectic seems to fit with “glocal” consciousness and eco-corporate commodity “sourcing,” its entropic perspective refuses to ally itself with any notion of a balance of forces or a détente in man’s war against nature. The artist had just begun creating his large-scale earthworks; in the first of these works he dumped a truckload of asphalt down a hillside of a quarry in Rome; three months later he poured the contents of a barrel of glue down a muddy slope in Vancouver’s Point Grey. This dynamic takes compelling form in the artist’s early Nonsites, which established a vital ecological correlation between the “here” of the consumer economy and the “there” of natural disruption. Read artistic legacy. HSF on Twitter HSF on Instagram Subscribe to our newsletter. 1961 ging er nach Rom, wo er sich für Psychologie, Religion und byzantinische Kunst interessierte. Six mirrors, chalk - Oxted Quarry, England. In 2012 Michael Heizer installed a massive 340-ton megalith outside the LA County Museum of Art. Lecture 13 November 2019, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main. Uploaded on. Porto: Museu Serralves In the chapter Threshole of the great book Formless: A User’s Guide, (Zone Books, 1997) Yve-Alain Bois addresses more specifically architecture to illustrates this concept created by Georges Bataille. If art history is a nightmare, what is natural history? Robert Smithson / dump truck, asphalt, quarry cliff. Nach seinem Militärdienst reiste er 1957 durch die USA nach Mexiko. For two years, he was enrolled at The Art Students League in New York and, for a briefer period, at The Brooklyn Museum School. Some features of this site may not work without it. Earth Art had never been such a public spectacle. As in the Site series, Smithson was preoccupied with the way material, or another site, might be represented; might the materials in the Displacement be thought to "mirror" their presence elsewhere? ; Robert Smithson: Asphalt Rundown, Rome, 1969. At all times the arts of painting … … Smithson’s trajectory is highly suggestive. One formative artist for Karstieß and his work is Robert Smithson (1938-1973), with whose piece “Asphalt Rundown” from 1969 he deeply engaged himself. 1963 heiratete Rober… Smithson tended to see ecologists as idealists fixated on impossible edens; his own dialectical method eschewed sentimentality and anthropomorphism, viewing the landscape as always in flux and apprehended in a necessarily violent confrontation of mind and matter. In 1970 he completed Partially Buried Woodshed , Kent, Ohio, and the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, along with a film of the same name that revolves around that work. In this case, the container is amorphous, the mirror is the rigid thing." Smithson began making the Mirror Displacement series shortly after his Site/Non-Site works. Image from Field Trips: Bernd and Hilla Becher / Robert Smithson. As neolithic humans spread across the warming globe they wiped out the great megafauna of the ice age. Spiral Jetty. Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” is an ecological object-lesson, perhaps a monument “against the ages,” as Smithson once put it; it slams the door on an era of temperate climates that had opened with new human frontiers sown with glacial erratics.***. Steel; 10 units with square surfaces - The Denver Art Museum. 1970. Soil, rocks, sand - Tecovas Lake, 15 miles NW of Amarillo, Texas, Content compiled and written by Justin Wolf, Edited and published by The Art Story Contributors. Nancy Holt wrote about this series of dirt meeting dirt as “entropy made visible” So strange, in the two large surveys on Land Art, by Tiberghein (1995) and Tufnell (2005), they put Turrell in a chronology beginning with Robert Smithson, while both failing to mention the differences in the contexts of where these land works are. MIT Libraries home Dome. * The anthropologist’s claim was meant to check modern humans’ self-regard and faith in progress. In the essay A Sedimentation of the Mind (1968) Robert Smithson proposes that artists move away from then familiar ideas of cool or hot art toward those of … And yet there is cause to register an event of some magnitude, comparable even to the discovery of that ancient Roman artifact. The boulder was merely set aside and marked off with reflector posts and caution tape. Amarillo Ramp is comprised of a 140-foot diameter partial circle of rock, which ascends from level ground up to a height of 15 feet. SHARE. In spite of this entropic vision, Smithson increasingly saw his work as a means to intervene concretely in issues of pollution and waste. For Michelangelo the sculpture was a revelation. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. A tipper truck is delivering a pour of liquid black asphalt down the side of a quarry. As it happens, Robert Smithson was in Vancouver in that benchmark year 1970. Asphalt Rundown, Robert Smithson. As it happens, Robert Smithson was in Vancouver in that benchmark year 1970. Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown (1969) George Hargreaves + Hargreaves Associates, Byxbee Park. Constructed when Smithson was still mostly confining himself to the studio, Plunge is in keeping with Minimalism's preoccupation with geometry, repetition, and industrial materials. Photograph used for reproduction purposes and shows signs of handling. ), the artist says that “Art can become a resource, that mediates between the ecologist and the industrialist” (Writings, 376). Comparing the Neolithic revolution to our time, Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that the former outstrips the present day for the sweeping extent of its technical and social transformations. ©2021 The Art Story Foundation. The hells of geology remain to be discovered. Email Address +1 505 983 0174. [email protected]. The existence of the self-sustaining utopia of … Works such as this belong to a part of his career in which he was preoccupied with imagery drawn from the repertoire of science fiction and Catholicism (his mother's religion). 49 years ago Robert Smithson made his first earthwork Asphalt Rundown in October 1969 in an abandoned quarry near Rome with Galleria L’Attico. Aftermath. Photograph used for … Asphalt Rundown, Rome, 1969, was Smithsons first flow, situated in an abandoned and mundane section of a gravel and dirt quarry in Rome. Blind in the Valley of the Suicides depicts a human transforming into a tree and may have been inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. Image from Field Trips: Bernd and Hilla Becher / Robert Smithson. 1969. Read full biography. The ramp was originally commissioned by Stanley Marsh, a local ranch owner, who also commissioned Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and several other sculptures located along his 200 square miles of land near Amarillo. Image from Field Trips: Bernd and Hilla Becher / Robert Smithson. It is located in Rome. Cava dei Selce, Rome, Italy. All Rights Reserved. In the essay A Sedimentation of the Mind (1968) Robert Smithson proposes that artists move away from then familiar ideas of cool or hot art toward those of … When a five-ton boulder was excavated from a construction zone in Vancouver last month, it attracted comparatively little attention. Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown, Rome, Italy, 1969. In dieser Zeit zeichnete und malte er Bilder in der Art des abstrakten Expressionismus. And, by inserting the Jetty into this damaged section, and using entirely natural materials native to the area, Smithson called attention to environmental blight. 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