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Isamu Noguchi
Play Sculpture, 1965-80 (2021)Open Edition
Steel and paint111.8 x 261.6 x 261.6 cm | 44 x 103 x 103 in.Further images
Isamu Noguchi wanted to change our notion of what sculpture should be and to engage our sensory and physical interaction with his art. Play Sculpture is a multi-functional sculpture that...Isamu Noguchi wanted to change our notion of what sculpture should be and to engage our sensory and physical interaction with his art. Play Sculpture is a multi-functional sculpture that doubles as public furniture, offering a place to sit, climb, rest or play. It derives from a series of experimental models made for playground equipment during the mid-1960s, in which the artist moulded plaster over bent paper clips to achieve various sculptural forms. A decade or so later, Noguchi furthered the idea by connecting standard sections of industrial sewer pipe together to create sculpture for public space. Play Sculpture was modelled from six, off-the-shelf, eighteen-inch diameter long ‘elbows’, linked to form a sinuous, undulating loop. Writing about his plans for a playground for the United Nations in 1952, Noguchi stated that he wished to make ‘a place for endless exploration, of endless opportunity for changing play’.
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