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Chain of Triangles (from Paris to St. Saturnin)

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Chain of Triangles (from Paris to St. Saturnin)

2010

Leonor Antunes

Portuguese, 1972

This sculpture is a constellation of triangular forms based on the artist's mapping of the origins and dissemination of the metric system, an international language that has its modern origins in Paris. Setting out to chart the route of its conception, Antunes gives sculptural form to a network of communication. She graphs the passage of space and time onto a sculpture, yet in the process she disguises all traces of the historic in her abstraction. Elegant in both weight and form, Chain of Triangles (from Paris to St. Saturnin) shows too the legacy of minimalism on a younger generation of artists working today.
Rope and brass
163 x 68 x 58 in.
Purchased with funds from Jon and Mary Shirley, Virginia and Bagley Wright, Jeffrey and Susan Brotman, Gary and Vicki Glant, Lyn and Jerry Grinstein, Racha and Wassef Haroun, Sam and Sylvia Ketcham, Paul and Becky Urla, Christina and James Lockwood, Linda Nordstrom, Kim Richter and an anonymous donor in honor of Michael Darling
2010.21
Provenance: Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Marc Foxx Gallery, "Leonor Antunes & Amalia Pica," February 27 - April 3, 2010

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