MADA Art Forum Lecture: Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe - Robert Smithson: Time Crystals

Dr Amelia Barikin (The University of Queensland) and Professor Chris McAuliffe (Australian National University), co-curators of Robert Smithson: Time Crystals will introduce the exhibition, offering insights into Smithson’s methods, processes, connections and influences.

Robert Smithson: Time Crystals is 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, in the years since his untimely death Smithson has come to be recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition, related symposium and accompanying publication feature new archival research into Smithson’s practice.

^{Image: Robert Smithson, Yucatan mirror displacements (1–9) 1969 (detail), nine chromogenic prints from 35 mm slides, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Art Resource, NY © Holt-Smithson Foundation. VAGA/Copyright Agency, 2018}