Robert Smithson at Monash University Art Museum
Robert Smithson: Time Crystals opens at Monash University Art Museum, Melbourne on July 25, 2018.
Developed in partnership with University of Queensland Art Museum and curated by Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe, this is the first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the work of Smithson. It features a program of films and lectures, as well as a publication.
The exhibition focuses on a careful selection of works on paper, sculpture, film, and archival material. The latter is drawn from the Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt Papers held at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art in Washington DC, which was donated to the Archives by Nancy Holt. An exhibition copy of Smithson’s sculpture Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965/1999) from the collection of Holt/Smithson Foundation is seen alongside works including Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1–9) (1969) (detail seen above) on loan from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Non-Site (South of Death Valley, Chalk Collected Somewhere Between Riggs and Silver Lake on Route 127) (1968) from The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Rocks and Mirror Square II (1971) from National Gallery of Australia.
Robert Smithson, Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1–9), 1969
[detail illustrated above]
Nine chromogenic prints from 35 mm slides
Photo: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Art Resource, NY
© Holt/Smithson Foundation, licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
