Estudio para ritmos bipolares
Artist name
Artist year born
1920
Artwork make date
1993
Artwork title translation
Study for Bipolar Rythms
Artwork material
collage
card
card
Artwork dimensions
height: 25.5cm
width: 33cm
width: 33cm
Artwork type (categories)
Collage
Accession method
Donated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro 1995
Accession number
42-1995
Label text
This abstract work is a collage on card with geometric forms in red, yellow, black and brown pasted on to a blue ground. Like many of Martín Blaszko's small, two-dimensional works this piece is a study for sculpture. Also fairly small in scale, Blaszko's sculpture is made from a variety of materials (sometimes painted) including bronze, wood and aluminium. Despite a comparatively small size, these are designed to be placed in the public domain; although physically diminutive they are frequently described as monumental, a quality that may be attributed to their soaring form and to Blaszko's strict compositional adherence to the Golden Mean.
The title of this work, Estudios para ritmos bipolares, points to another of the principles of Blaszko's work: his exploration of bipolarity, or the union of oppositions. Jacqueline Barnitz describes how, in Blasko's sculpture, 'the monumental and the human scale are blended into horizontal-vertical structures to form a perfect equilibrium, some in repose, others dynamic, always in tension' (Barnitz, 2000: 6).
The title of this work, Estudios para ritmos bipolares, points to another of the principles of Blaszko's work: his exploration of bipolarity, or the union of oppositions. Jacqueline Barnitz describes how, in Blasko's sculpture, 'the monumental and the human scale are blended into horizontal-vertical structures to form a perfect equilibrium, some in repose, others dynamic, always in tension' (Barnitz, 2000: 6).
In the course of Blaszko's career his sculpture has become increasingly dynamic; in this collage it appears that the tension between geometric forms is so great that the opposing elements have actually broken away from one another.
Reference
Jacqueline Barnitz, Martín Blaszko: Esculturas Urbanas. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Glock, 2000.
Joanne Harwood
Last updated date
2008