Robert Smithson
American artist Robert Smithson used the land itself as his medium and the landscape as his gallery:
I think that’s more or less run its course – the typical idea of exhibitions in a museum. I think it would be quite possible to make art in a quarry, a mine, a lake, or canal – you know, any number of places. To build directly out of the ground of the site is one of my intentions.
Robert Smithson, in conversation with Kenneth Baker, 1971