Robert Smithson, Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965)

Painted steel, mirrors

24  x 30 x 31 in. (61 x 76 x 79 cm) each

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Two blue and green geometric sculptures hanging on wall

Robert Smithson, Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965)

Painted steel, mirrors

24  x 30 x 31 in. (61 x 76 x 79 cm) each

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Robert Smithson reflected in his sculpture Enantiomorphic Chambers (1966)

Photograph: Nancy Holt

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

A Smithson black and white photographic self-portrait with Entantiomorphic chamber, 1966.

Robert Smithson reflected in his sculpture Enantiomorphic Chambers (1966)

Photograph: Nancy Holt

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Code of Reflections included in Robert Smithson's text Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers  (1966)

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

code of reflections

Code of Reflections included in Robert Smithson's text Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers  (1966)

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Robert Smithson, Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965)

Painted steel, mirrors

24  x 30 x 31 in. (61 x 76 x 79 cm) each

Installation view: The Double, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2022

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, photograph by Robert Shelley

Artwork © Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Robert Smithson's Enantiomorphic Chambers on view at the National Gallery

Robert Smithson, Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965)

Painted steel, mirrors

24  x 30 x 31 in. (61 x 76 x 79 cm) each

Installation view: The Double, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2022

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, photograph by Robert Shelley

Artwork © Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Sculpture

Enantiomorphic Chambers

Robert Smithson
1965
Painted steel, mirrors
24 x 30 x 31 in. (61 x 76 x 79 cm)

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Writing

Writing by the Artist
Robert Smithson's Enantiomorphic Chambers

Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers

Robert Smithson
‎‏‏‎The surface plane (fluorescent green) is behind the framing support (blue). One cannot see the whole work from a single point of view, because the vanishing point is split and reversed. The structure is “flat,” but with an extra dimension.
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...the left and right hand could be considered an enantiomorph. It is a kind of bi-polar notion that comes out of crystal structure. They are two separate things that relate to each other. l would say that in the Enantiomorphic Chambers there is also the indication of a kind of dialectical thinking that would emerge later very strongly in the Nonsites.

Robert Smithson

"Oral history interview with Robert Smithson, 1972 July 14-19." Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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