Corner Counter-Relief
コーナー・反レリーフ
- Birth Year
- 1885
- Death Year
- 1953
- Date
- 1915 (reproduced in 1979)
- Technique, Material, Format
- iron, aluminum, zinc and etc.
- Dimension
- 78.8 x 152.4 x 76.2 cm
- Category
- Sculpture or Three-dimensional Work by Foreign Artist
- Inventory Number
- 88-SF-007
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: “Corner Counter-Relief” by Vladimir Tatlin (video / January 2021)
This unique video series deliberately includes no commentary, allowing you unimpeded enjoyment of artworks from the Yokohama Museum of Art collection in detail-rich close-up and from new angles.
Sculptures are often displayed in the center of exhibition rooms, so as we view them we are not even aware of the surrounding walls. But this work is made to be fitted in a corner where two walls meet at a right angle. As a result, our attention naturally goes to the walls and the space defined by them. In this way, the work and the room influence each other. Vladimir Tatlin was active at the time when Russia was moving rapidly towards a socialist revolution. So perhaps it’s no coincidence that he’s engineered this shift from the center of the room to a corner, and from conventional sculptural materials like heavy stone and bronze to these light-weight steel sheets that almost appear to float. As the world changed around them, artists too boldly reassessed the possibilities for sculpture and painting.
(KURAYA Mika)