
Manolo Valdés
Las Meninas
2000
Not on View
Donald Judd
1976
Judd’s "progressions" develop according to mathematically based sequences. The Fibonacci sequence occurs in natural processes, such as the branching of trees or leaf arrangement in plants. Each number in the sequence is the sum of the preceding two: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on. When translated into volume in this sculpture, the small yellow forms on the right increase rapidly in size. The interstices follow the same pattern, but in the opposite sense. Each element has a symbiotic relationship with other parts as well as with the whole. While a progression can develop to infinity, the material form and physical limitations of sculpture define, limit and complete it, engendering a sense of union and singularity.
On view
Artist | Donald Judd |
Date | 1976 |
Medium | Clear anodized and chartreuse anodized aluminum |
Dimensions | 15 x 281.3 x 15 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012 |
Accession | 2012.66 |
Collection | Schulhof Collection |
Type | Sculpture |
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Manolo Valdés
2000
Not on View
Josef Albers
1970
Not on View
Augustus John
n.d.
Not on View
Stanley William Hayter
1938–39
On view