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Thursday, 14 January 2021

Artlyst - Robert Smithson: The Archetypal Nature Of Things

My latest piece for Artlyst reviews two Robert Smithson exhibitions at Marian Goodman Galleries and considers the significance of the period in Smithson's life when he got interested in Catholicism through T.S. Eliot and that range of thinking:

'Smithson was invested in a definition of art that was timebound and precarious, that would not claim monumental status, rather collaborate with entropy. Up until his death in 1973, Smithson demonstrated that art can be a means to explore how we might try to understand our place on the planet, with all of its complexities.

All this is incipient in that earlier starting point where he identified with the “Christian mystics bemoaning a fallen world”. Incipient there, too, is his awareness of that the unknowable zero island – the prolongation of spirals which reverberate up and down space and time – is only realisable on a metaphysical level, as that offers the only path from the contingent natural universe to something beyond.'

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