Robert Smithson Map Triangles for Non-Site #2, n.d.

Must be sold with "Entropic Pole," 1967 The map works selected for Frieze Seoul turn New Jersey into the poles of the Earth. Smithson grew up in the Garden State of New Jersey, and throughout his work he would return to his home state. For him, New Jersey’s power was in its peripheral, secondary status to New York. The North and South Poles are locations that embody Smithson’s interest in duality and, to use his words, “dialectic of place.” In an interview he described the impossibility of placing the North and South Poles on top of each other, yet both have an unbreakable correspondence. In one work, a map is annotated in pencil and portioned to create a cartography for a Nonsite that points to an elsewhere. In the second diptych he uses reprographic technology to apply entropy to the factual fiction of the map. Smithson actively used the new media of his time, employing photostats to repeat, degrade, double, and expand the image