• A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

    Robert Smithson: A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
    Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press