Sculpture or Three-dimensional Work by Foreign Artist
Inventory Number
90-SF-002
This work, which has complex contours, combines three plates each cut into different shapes. If you walk around it, taking a closer look at each plate, you notice they are all shaped like humans. One has breasts, one has male genitals, and one obtrudes a small round head and has a club-like arm. None of the three can stand on its own, nor can any two of them stand together. They can only stand when all three are combined. And yet, while they are “three as one”—or a “trinity” as is indicated in the title—their limbs are stretched out and they are not embracing each other. The word “trinity” was used as the code name for the first nuclear test conducted by the United States in July 1945, the same year that Noguchi made his first Trinity in slate. This work was cast in bronze three years later.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)
This work, which has complex contours, combines three plates each cut into different shapes. If you walk around it, taking a closer look at each plate, you notice they are all shaped like humans. One has breasts, one has male genitals, and one obtrudes a small round head and has a club-like arm. None of the three can stand on its own, nor can any two of them stand together. They can only stand when all three are combined. And yet, while they are “three as one”—or a “trinity” as is indicated in the title—their limbs are stretched out and they are not embracing each other. The word “trinity” was used as the code name for the first nuclear test conducted by the United States in July 1945, the same year that Noguchi made his first Trinity in slate. This work was cast in bronze three years later.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)