Robert Smithson die Erfindung der Landschaft = The invention of landscape
Subtitle: Broken Circle, Spiral Hill & film
By: Robert Smithson ; [curators, Eva Schmidt, Roel Arkesteijn]
Contributors: Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014; Tegelaers, Theo; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen; Kjarvalsstaðir (Reykjavík, Iceland); Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Koln
Language: ger
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9783864420108
Subjects: Exhibitions; Earthworks (Art)
Other titles: Robert Smithson : the Invention of landscape; Broken Circle, Spiral Hill & film; Erfindung der Landschaft.; Invention of landscape.; Breaking ground, Broken Circle/Spiral Hill.
Description: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (in Emmen, Netherlands) is the only earthwork produced by Smithson still in existence outside the United States. As an integral part of these works, Smithson made films that reveal the spatial and environmental context of the work. Aerial shots in a symmetrical pattern were combined with close-ups, documentary footage of the construction of the work and views of the surrounding landscape. In this way, visitors to galleries and museums were introduced to the earthworks produced by Smithson in barely accessible, remote locations. As a result of a tragic aircraft accident during a reconnaissance flight in 1973, Smithson's life and work came to a premature end. Smithson was never able to finish the film about Broken Circle/Spiral Hill. 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. Holt currently works with a Dutch team in editing the video Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, including the original film footage she shot in 1971, and video recently shot recently in Emmen by a Dutch crew.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text in German and English.

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 4th Mar.-28th May 2012, and Reykjavik Art Museum, 17th Jan.-13th Apr. 2013.