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This artwork is part of Land Marks
This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 399
In the last two years before his death in a plane crash at age thirty-five, Smithson proposed various land-reclamation projects that would transform devastated industrial sites into a new form of public art. Here he envisions an earthwork that would have dwarfed even his famous "Spiral Jetty": the oldest open-pit copper mine and the largest man-made excavation (more than two miles wide) in the world. The unexecuted project involved the construction of a massive revolving disk—reminiscent of the viewing platform of a nineteenth-century panorama—at the pit's base from which to survey nature's gradual and inevitable reclamation of man's invasive enterprise.
Inscription: Signed, titled, and dated in ink on plastic overlay, bottom left to bottom right: "BINGHAM COPPER MINING PIT--UTAH // RECLAMATION PROJECT"; bottom right center: "Robert Smithson 73"
Estate of the artist; [James Cohan Gallery, New York]
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