Form in Contortion over Thread (Forme en Contorsion sur Trame)
Julio Le Parc Argentine
Not on view
Form in Contortion over Thread (1966) is a key example of Le Parc’s Kinetic art, when actual movement became part of his artistic experimentation. During the 1960s, the artist made paintings and sculptures with movable parts including mirrors, motors, and electric light. With resonances of Constructivism, in particular of the work of Naum Gabo, Le Parc used everyday materials such as glass, metals, Plexiglas, mirrors and allowed his works to show how they were made. His mobile relief sculptures are studies of progressive sequences and displacements into three dimensions. The destabilizing visual effects points to the ideas of instability and contingency in everyday life.
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