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These works depict nude figures with words, numbers and nonsensical phrases and what appear to be layers of compressed rocks and minerals. Smithson described them as ‘phantasmagorical drawings of cosmical worlds’. One year after making these, he abandoned painting and drawing to focus solely on sculpture. His sculptures take organic materials, collected from the landscape, directly into gallery spaces. He later made monumental ‘earthworks’ outside using material extracted directly from sites such as soil, stone and wood. Robert Smithson’s work is an important reference for many artists. In this exhibition, Jennifer West references his land art work and The Crystal World artists refer to his wri...
1962
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