Robert SMITHSON

American Land art artist

Born in 1938 and deceased in 1973

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           He  was one of the most representative American theoretician artists of minimalist art.

           Robert Smithson will find, in the idea of entropy and growing disorder, a new way of practicing art in reaction to the purely formalistic discourse which aims to isolate art from the reality.

           His majestic work, « Spiral Jetty »: a giant dike that spirals counter-clockwise evoking entropy, the evolution of the world in reverse.

A universal symbol, tied to the sun worship, a work in perpetual motion is an allegory of creation.

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