This week I thought I could share Gabriel Orozco, an American contemporary artist, take on the non-site, in the spirit of this week's readings on Environmental Art and the Dissolution of Boundaries.
Like Smithson, Orozco attempts to recreate a site, in this case a beach in Baja California, Mexico by exhibiting found objects of different mediums in the gallery space, thus creating a link between the two. Orozco appears to be commenting on the excess of garbage that can be found on beaches, but I believe that he relies on the same standards set by Smithson such as his use of untraditional materials to take formal art into the third-dimension. I'm still not sure if the true art resides in the site or the non-site or possibly in the performance of collecting the materials, but it is interesting to think about how artists are still taking advantage of the non-site to promote their own causes.
You can learn more about Asterisms by visiting http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/4775
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