Sculpture or Three-dimensional Work by Foreign Artist
Inventory Number
90-SF-004
From around 1963 until the early 1970s, Isamu Noguchi worked on marble sculptures every summer in the Italian village of Querceta, near the famous marble town of Pietrasanta. But he did not carve from single blocks of stone. Instead, he joined together small pieces of two differently colored types of stone to create soft and dynamic shapes resembling large twisted tubes. The stones are threaded through with metal wire, which is tensioned between each end so that the works do not lose their shape. Downward Pulling is one such work. Like a coil in a spring, the ring is held up at the back with a rectangular block of white marble. Thus the tension in the ring mediates the upward rising form and the downward pull of gravity.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)
From around 1963 until the early 1970s, Isamu Noguchi worked on marble sculptures every summer in the Italian village of Querceta, near the famous marble town of Pietrasanta. But he did not carve from single blocks of stone. Instead, he joined together small pieces of two differently colored types of stone to create soft and dynamic shapes resembling large twisted tubes. The stones are threaded through with metal wire, which is tensioned between each end so that the works do not lose their shape. Downward Pulling is one such work. Like a coil in a spring, the ring is held up at the back with a rectangular block of white marble. Thus the tension in the ring mediates the upward rising form and the downward pull of gravity.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)