"When he died in a plane crash in 1973 at just 35 years old, he left behind a vast personal library that represented his broad interests: there were books on crystals and rock minerals, dinosaurs and insects, myths and children's rhymes, and classics like James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones. Holt donated the entirety of Smithson's collection - approximately 1,120 books-to the Archives of American Art after his death, where it's still housed today."
"Presented in museums and galleries from Utah to Arkansas to New York, "Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club" is both a painstaking ode to the pioneering artist and a bold consideration of how we access and consume information. "I can't really remember my first encounter with Robert Smithson, but I've always been a fan of his artwork and, in particular, the way he oriented his sculptures to coexist inside the physical space of a gallery and outside in the landscape," Bakker says."
Robert Smithson amassed a wide-ranging personal library covering crystals, rock minerals, dinosaurs, insects, myths, children's rhymes, and literary classics such as Finnegans Wake and Ficciones. Nancy Holt donated roughly 1,120 volumes from that collection to the Archives of American Art after Smithson's 1973 death. Conrad Bakker spent five years recreating every title at a 1:1 scale. The recreated collection, Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club, has been exhibited in museums and galleries from Utah to Arkansas to New York. The project operates as an ode to Smithson and a probe into how people access and consume information.
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