... (1898) while working on the Spiral Jetty in 1970, which undoubtedly influenced the subsequent Broken Circle &/ Spiral Hill (1971, Emmen). 0000004615 00000 n Take, for example, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) located at Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. 0000009750 00000 n Smithson’s film notes and drawings are guiding the video production. 0000003259 00000 n This way, viewers in galleries and museums could be introduced to works that were often located in inaccessible or inhospitable places. Holt will work with a Dutch team in editing the video BREAKING GROUND: BROKEN CIRCLE/SPIRAL HILL (1971-2011), which will include the original film footage Holt shot in 1971, and video shot recently in Emmen by a Dutch crew. Location: Auditorium Stedelijk MuseumLanguage: EnglishEntrance fee: Free with valid Museum ticketTime: 8 pm - 9 pmThe Stedelijk Museum, Land Art Contemporary, and SKOR/The Foundation for Art in Public Spaces are proud to present the posthumous film recordings of Robert Smithson’s Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971). In June 1971, American artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973) created the land art project Broken Circle/Spiral Hill in a sand quarry in Emmen. * As part of every work, Smithson also made a film that revealed its spatial context. Created in Emmen, Holland in 1971, the project followed Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970), and was finished only two years before his untimely death in a plane crash. Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist who used photography in relation to sculpture and land art. Forty years after the creation of the earthwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in the Dutch town of Emmen, a Dutch team has finally finished the film that land artist Robert Smithson was never able to complete. He was a writer and director, known for Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, 1971-2011 (2011), Spiral Jetty (1970) and Mono Lake (2004). 0000004972 00000 n 378 0 obj <> endobj 0000012551 00000 n endstream endobj 379 0 obj<>/Metadata 376 0 R/Pages 373 0 R/StructTreeRoot 89 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 380 0 obj<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI]/ExtGState<>>>/Type/Page>> endobj 381 0 obj<> endobj 382 0 obj<> endobj 383 0 obj<> endobj 384 0 obj<> endobj 385 0 obj<> endobj 386 0 obj<> endobj 387 0 obj<> endobj 388 0 obj<> endobj 389 0 obj<> endobj 390 0 obj<>stream Although Robert Smithson died at the age of only 35, his short career has inspired more young artists than most among the generation that emerged in the 1960s. Ellsworth Kelly. The film will premiere on September 17, 2011 in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition program in the Centre for Visual Arts in Emmen, and will be followed by this one-off screening in the Stedelijk. H���r�F2�� 1923 … Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson made several films together and were married for a decade until his death in 1973. Forty years later, the work in Emmen is once again intact and regularly visited by fans of Smithson's from all over the world. Smithson is a pioneer of earthworks—sculptural pieces made of, and embedded into, the landscape. Smithson grew up in New Jersey, and moved to New York in the 1950s to study at the Art Students’ League and the Brooklyn Museum School. 0000092523 00000 n Robert Smithson, Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, Emmen, the Netherlands In 1971 he created Broken Circle/Spiral Hill for the exhibition for the Sonsbeek'71 art festival at Emmen, the Netherlands. 0000036292 00000 n 0000097252 00000 n Ad Reinhardt "Art-as-art and nothing else" 1913-1967. Forty years later, a video incorporating the original film footage is now to be completed on behalf of the Land Art Contemporary program in a collaboration between artist Nancy Holt and curator Theo Tegelaers of SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain. Source He was married to Nancy Holt. For further information about the entire Land Art Contemporary program, please visitwww.landartcontemporary.nl, 25 Jul 2020 21 Mar 2021, 5 Sep 2020 0000007233 00000 n Smithson made the work at the invitation of the Sonsbeek buiten de perken (Beyond the Pale) exhibition. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) is an artist who recalibrated the possibilities of art. For two years, he was enrolled at The Art Students League in New York and, for a briefer period, at The Brooklyn Museum School. Smithson was commissioned to do this work for the Sonsbeek buiten de perken (“Sonsbeek Beyond the Pale”) exhibition. Robert Smithson was becoming increasingly well known in the New York art world during the 1960s when he conceptualized “Spiral Jetty.” Smithson wanted to make art that wasn’t confined to a normal gallery space — an extension of the “phenomenology” concept that previous artists like Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne had explored. 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