January 2024 Press Round-up
Smithson prima della Land [Smithson before Land]
Original Italian translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.
by Luana De Micco
Il Giornale Dell’Arte, January 11, 2024
“An exhibition by Marian Goodman is dedicated to the American artist who created the famous Spiral Jetty which retraces the stages preceding the experience of Land Art.“
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by Matthew Jacquet
Numero, January 12, 2024
“[Robert Smithson] was also a great draftsman, sketching on paper fantasized landscapes, ideas for sculptures, but also scenes mixing fictional characters, religious symbols and eroticized bodies. The Marian Goodman Gallery presents a series of these drawings and collages made in the early 1960s … “
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Nancy Holt: el tiempo del paisaje [Nancy Holt: landscape time]
Original Spanish translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.
by Amalia Cross
LitoralPress, January 14, 2024
“In astronomy, the occultation of a star by the interposition of another celestial body is known as an eclipse. While one shines, the other is not visible. Something similar happened to Nancy Holt (1938-2014), who remained in the shadow of the American artists associated with land art and behind the figure of Robert Smithson, her partner since 1963.“
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Original French translated to English via Google Translate – please forgive any errors or omissions.
by Jean-Marie Durand
Les Inrockuptibles, January 15, 2024
“Reflecting on the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge, [Robert Smithson] raised essential questions about our place in the world, which this exhibition, designed by art historian Adrian Rifkin and the Holt/Smithson Foundation, illuminates by focusing on a few works on paper dating from the early 1960s. “
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Off the Presses: News Works on Two Influential Artists
by Dan Aubrey
U.S.1 Princeton Info, January 17, 2024
“A deep and engaging study of the artistically daring New Jersey-born and raised Smithson, [Inside the Spiral] is an artful and handy guide to an artist whose art expanded an artistic tradition – based in European and Roman Catholic expression – into some literally ground breaking concepts, including the introduction of earthworks and ‘nonsites’.“
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by Patrick Javault
The Art Newspaper – Edition Française, January 19, 2024
“There appear collisions of images and periods such as [Smithson] produced in his writings or in Spiral Jetty, his cinema masterpiece: prehistory, science, science fiction, cinema, Luciferian visions. It's the other subterranean world, that of the experimental and the underground.”
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The Passions of Robert Smithson
by Donald Kuspit
Whitehot Magazine, January 20, 2024
“Suzaan Boettger, an art historian, has written a scholarly tour de force about the Catholic artist
Robert Smithson (1938-1973), famous for his earth art, particularly the Spiral Jetty, 1970. “
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by August Davis
The Architect’s Newspaper, January 30, 2024
“Curated and developed over a seven-year period by Nasher assistant curator Dr. Leigh A. Arnold, Groundswell literally breaks new ground, presenting a survey of 12 American women artists who pioneered and expanded practices of land art.“
Installation view: Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus — Early Works, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 13 January – 24 February 2024
Photograph: Rebecca Fanuele
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
