University of Queensland Art Museum & Monash University Museum of Art
Abstract
Curated by Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe, Robert Smithson: Time Crystals was the first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the work of American artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973). Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Smithson is now widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Based on intensive archival research, the project generated a new understanding of Smithson’s approach to time that challenged the dominance of entropy in existing scholarship on his practice. Presented at UQAM and MUMA with the support of the Terra Foundation for the Arts and the Holt/Smithson Foundation
