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John McCracken — “A successfully abstract sculpture will tend to make the space surrounding it abstract too.”
John McCracken

“A successfully abstract sculpture will tend to make the space surrounding it abstract too.”

John McCracken's sleek, monolithic plank leans with quiet authority against the wall, bridging the floor and vertical surface in a gesture that collapses the boundary between sculpture and its environment. Finished in lustrous varnish over resin and fiberglass on a wooden core, its immaculate, mirror-like surface reflects and distorts the surrounding space, drawing the viewer into a meditation on perception and presence. True to its declarative title, the work transforms the gallery around it into something weightless and uncertain, as though the act of looking at the object dissolves the ordinary coordinates of the room itself.

Medium
varnish, resin, fiberglass and wood

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 10, 2016

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John McCracken, “A successfully abstract sculpture will tend to make the space surrounding it abstract too.”

John McCracken's sleek, monolithic plank leans with quiet authority against the wall, bridging the floor and vertical surface in a gesture that collapses the boundary between sculpture and its environment. Finished in lustrous varnish over resin and fiberglass on a wooden core, its immaculate, mirror-like surface reflects and distorts the surrounding space, drawing the viewer into a meditation on perception and presence. True to its declarative title, the work transforms the gallery around it into something weightless and uncertain, as though the act of looking at the object dissolves the ordinary coordinates of the room itself.

Medium
varnish, resin, fiberglass and wood
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th-Century Art, 20th Century, Contemplative Mood, Male Artist, Geometric Form, Industrial Materials, Minimalist Artist, American Artist, Cool And Contemplative, Resin And Fiberglass, Three Dimensional Form, Abstract Sculpture, Meditative Mood, Monochromatic, Three-Dimensional, Minimalism

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