Not exact matches
The
more atoms an
object has, the
more likely those atoms are to interact with each other and their environment, destroying
fragile quantum effects.
Drawn primarily from collections of the Musée Rodin, Paris, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition brings together
more than 200
objects —
fragile plasters, patinated bronzes, marbles, ceramics and works on paper — and examines the artist's creative process.
Presumably, hanging Bubble Wrap on the wall alludes to the fact that its designers originally intended to produce three - dimensional wallpaper before realizing that their product was far
more functional as packing material for
fragile objects; placing it alongside Morellet might hint at the ways in which the standard grid served as a point of departure and structural principle for both artistic composition and industrial manufacture.
With haunting juxtapositions of
objects at once
fragile and grandiose, the Jamaica - born artist comments on liberty, democracy, and his own story as an immigrant Read
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Every
object, each work of the exhibition, every rigid body, a unit of an open set, realizes its
fragile nature, and it's called to function as a completed organism when it is nothing
more than an instrument performing a specific operation.