Here Spiral Jetty appears liberated from its setting and its history. The helicopter shots in the final scene reveal the enormous scale of the sculpture but also portrays it as pure form. It describes the place and the process, but also the artist’s sense of wonder at altering a course of events that began in prehistoric times. This film is a work in its own right according to the artist. Smithson was interested in the relationship between man and landscape, comparing the bulldozed earth with ancient monuments. He was fascinated by the harsh landscape with its vestiges of old industries. One of the best-known masterpieces of land art, the Spiral Jetty was constructed by Smithson in 1970 near Rozel Point on the northeastern short of Great Salt Lake in Utah. Robert Smithson created his gigantic land art sculpture Spiral Jetty in Great Salt Lake, Utah in 1970. Indeed, Smithson’s first biographer drags the sweeping spacetime. I filmverket tycks Spiral Jetty stå fri gentemot sin omgivning och historia. The cover of Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson features not one of Gianfranco Gorgoni’s iconic photographs of the earthworker dwarfed by his jetty but a noirish close-up of the artist with a cigarette held up to his acne-scarred face, a stigmatist in aviators. Slutscenens tagningar från helikopter visar på skulpturens enorma skala, men betonar den också som ren form. The spiral has been a symbol in art and culture for thousands of years connected to ideas around life, infinity, and growth, and notably the more ethereal (or spiritual) qualities of life. Den beskriver platsen och arbetsprocessen, men också konstnärens förundran över att påverka ett skeende med början i förhistorisk tid. Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005 Sculpture: Robert Smithson 1938-1973Image:Soren.harward at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Filmen är för konstnären ett verk i sin egen rätt.

Smithson intresserade sig för förhållandet människa och landskap, och liknade de schaktade jordmassorna vid antikens monument. Han fascinerades av det kärva landskapet med rester av förfallen industri. In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at. It describes the place and the process, but also the artist’s sense of wonder at fundamentally altering a site, enter a course of events that began in prehistoric times.

The film about this project is a work in its own right according to the artist. He was fascinated by the harsh landscape with its vestiges of old industries. About the artwork Robert Smithson created his gigantic land art sculpture Spiral Jetty in Great Salt Lake, Utah in 1970.

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