Cosmic, concrete, earthy: Nancy Holt’s Land Art on show in UK

Nancy Holt (1938–2014) is the subject of her first major UK exhibition at the Goodwood Art Foundation near Chichester, West Sussex, which includes outdoor works not previously shown in a major UK survey. The show features the first posthumous installation of Holt’s Hydra’s Head, an earthwork of six pools aligned to the Hydra constellation, last installed on the Niagara River in 1974 and now re-sited in Goodwood’s chalk quarry following Holt’s instructions, according to curator Ann Gallagher. It also includes Ventilation System (1985–92), which runs from the gallery into the surrounding landscape via ventilation tubing. The exhibition was organized with the Holt/Smithson Foundation, established by Holt in 2018 and scheduled to terminate in 2038, which manages research and collections related to Holt and her late husband Robert Smithson (1938–1973).

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