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Hotel Palenque

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"This is just some balcony. I don't even know where it was....It was just sort of a convenient place to take a picture from."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"At one point evidently they decided to build some floors and decided that that wasn't a very good idea so they demolished them, but they left this kind of spiky, irregular, cantilevered effect coming off the side of the wall. It sort of suggests Piranesi."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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Ninth Mirror Displacement

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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Sixth Mirror Displacement

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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Seventh Mirror Displacement

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"You can see that instead of just tearing it all down at once, they tear it down partially so you're not deprived of the complete wreckage situation. It's not often that you see buildings being both ripped down and built up at the same time."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"The logic of the whole place is just impossible to fathom; there's no way that you could possibly figure it out."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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First Mirror Displacement

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"The logic of the whole place is just impossible to fathom; there's no way that you could possibly figure it out."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"The logic of the whole place is just impossible to fathom; there's no way that you could possibly figure it out."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"You never know when you'll have some traveler, some tourist who comes to the hotel and he wants a place that doesn't have a roof on it."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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Eighth Mirror Displacement

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"This is just some balcony. I don't even know where it was....It was just sort of a convenient place to take a picture from."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

Site/Repository

Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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Third Mirror Displacement

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"At one point evidently they decided to build some floors and decided that that wasn't a very good idea so they demolished them, but they left this kind of spiky, irregular, cantilevered effect coming off the side of the wall. It sort of suggests Piranesi."

Creator/Culture

artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

Site/Repository

Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"You never know when you'll have some traveler, some tourist who comes to the hotel and he wants a place that doesn't have a roof on it."

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artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

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Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Hotel Palenque

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"Here we have some bricks piled up with sticks sort of resting on these bricks and they signify something--I never really figured it out while I was there, but they seem to suggest some kind of permanence actually."

Creator/Culture

artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

Site/Repository

Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Work Title

Hotel Palenque

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"You can see that instead of just tearing it all down at once, they tear it down partially so you're not deprived of the complete wreckage situation. It's not often that you see buildings being both ripped down and built up at the same time."

Creator/Culture

artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

Site/Repository

Performance location: University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Owner of slides: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

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Work Title

Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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Fourth Mirror Displacement

Creator/Culture

artist: Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973)

Site/Repository

Creation location: Unknown site (Península de Yucatán, Mexico); Owner of photographs: Estate of Robert Smithson (New York, New York, USA)

HART Image Order Number

250050

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