Holt's Mirrors of Light I at Art Basel Unlimited in 2023

Nancy Holt's "Mirrors of Light I" on view at Art Basel Unlimited

We are happy to share that Nancy Holt's room-sized installation Mirrors of Light I will be on view next week at Art Basel Unlimited with Sprüth Magers.
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Nancy Holt’s artistic investigations navigate the complexities of light as an artistic medium, as a physical reality, and as an aesthetic concept.⁠ A central theme for Holt is the way natural and artificial light create new possibilities of seeing.

The room-sized installation Mirrors of Light I plays with the proliferation of light. ⁠Illumination from a spotlight is reflected in ten circular mirrors, creating projections that appear to make light material, generating a sensory and conceptual experience of the relationships between viewer, light, and reflection.⁠

Holt's Mirrors of Light I will be on view along with works by Anne Imhof, Barbara Kruger, and Thomas Scheibitz presented by Sprüth Magers at Art Basel Unlimited,  from June 13-18, 2023. 

Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Installation view: Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland, Presented by Sprüth Magers, 2023
Ten mirrors, 650 watt quartz light 
Overall dimensions: 11 x 20 x 28 ft. (3.4 x 6.1 x 8.5 m)
Mirrors: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) diameter each
Photograph: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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Chapter Seven of Tuesday Texts

We are happy to announce that throughout October we are publishing a seventh chapter of our Tuesday Text Series as part of our ongoing Scholarly Text Program, which invites thinkers to focus on a single artwork by Holt and/or Smithson. 

Every Tuesday we will publish a text to our website that includes images selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes pointing to the author’s references.

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Letters and early drawings by Robert Smithson published in Centre Pompidou journal

The Fall issue of the Centre Pompidou journal Les cahiers du musée national d’art moderne publishes for the very first time Robert Smithson’s letters and writings from Rome, accompanied by previously unpublished early drawings.

The French language publication includes translations of letters Smithson wrote to Nancy Holt in 1959-1961 and letters Smithson sent to George Lester between 1960 and 1963. George Lester offered Smithson his first solo international exhibition at Galleria George Lester in Rome in 1961.