Louis Natalini
David Smith was famous for his welding
sculptures. He was influenced by surrealism and constructivism. This work is
called Cubi XXVii it was 27 out of 28 works in the Cubi series. This is one of Smith’s
last works. The works mainly included cylinders and cubes as this one is. The
medium is stainless steel. He polished the steel until it was a highly
reflective surface. It was one of three in the Cubi series often referred to as
“The Gates”. Smith referred to them as “arches” This is because of the almost
doorlike frame with the empty center. The two portions that stand out are the
cylinder seeming to barely balance the upper elongated cube. The other portion
was the two smaller diagonal facing cubes using each other for balance while
also acting as a base for the two cubes above them. Its dimensions are 111 3/8 x 87 3/4 x 34
inches.
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