Robert Smithson / Three Films

In collaboration with DocAviv Festival

Robert Smithson (1938–1973) is one of the foremost American artists of the second half of the twentieth century. His groundbreaking Land Art, produced since the late 1960s, includes the iconic Spiral Jetty (1970) at the Great Salt Lake in Utah – a work meant from its inception to undergo processes of degradation, submersion, and re emergence. Smithson’s film Spiral Jetty opens up the earthwork to the cinematic medium, to the sound of the helicopter from which it was filmed, in and against the direction of its spiral motion. It is screened alongside two short films made by Smithson with the artists Michael Heizer and Nancy Holt, roaming through an American landscape of swamps, salt lakes, and asphalt roads: Mono Lake and Swamp. Smithson died in a plane crash in 1973 while flying over the site of the last earthwork he was creating, Amarillo Ramp, in Texas.

Curator: Yael Bergstein

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The screening will take place on Thursday, 8/7, in a looped screening throughout the museum's operating hours, 12:00-21:00 (the indicated time is the opening time).
The screening is included in the entrance ticket to the Museum >.

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Holt/Smithson Foundation and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York ©