Adrian Rifkin and Lisa Le Feuvre discuss "Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works"

Professor Adrian Rifkin and Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Lisa Le Feuvre discuss Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works, on view at Galerie Marian Goodman in Paris through 24 February, 2024. This exhibition focuses on Smithson’s works on paper made in the early 1960s, presenting drawings and collages that set the ground for his studies of entropy and the fall of modernism. Many of these drawings have never previously been seen. Leather-clad bikers, crumbling cities, movie stills, occult books, and erotic entanglements buzz against references to the dogmas of art history, religion, and totalitarianism.

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