'It was a dark night and there were no lights [...] or anything at all except the dark pavement moving through the landscape of the flats, rimmed by hills in the distance [...] The drive was a revealing experience. The road and much of the landscape was artificial, and yet it couldn't be called a work of art. On the other hand it did something for me that art had never done [...] its effect was to liberate me from many of the views I had had about art [...] There is no way you can frame it, you just have to experience it.'
Artist Tony Smith's account of a nocturnal car ride on the unfinished New Jersey Turnpike quoted by Michael Fried in Art and Objecthood, first published in Artforum in 1967.
Press release courtesy Two Rooms.
16 Putiki Street
Newton
Auckland, 1021
New Zealand
www.tworooms.co.nz
+64 9 360 5900
Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm