Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown

and two riffs on Smithson's work by other artists:



Enrique Jezik
Six cubic yards of organic matter (Tribute) 2009
Four digital prints on photo paper

Photographic sequence of the action taken by Enrique Jezik from the work Asphalt Rundown (Italy, 1969), Robert Smithson, where a truck spilled asphalt down a hillside. In this case the artist replaces the asphalt organic remains obtained from the municipal slaughterhouse in Juarez as a tribute to the victims of violence throughout the country