DIACUBO - 1982

nickel cromato | 20x20x20

The Diacubo continues the theme of diagonal and cube and was meant as a model for a work on a much larger scale. In fact as large as a whole self-contained town built on as minimal an area as one lateral diagonal of the cube! It recalls the utopian beginnings of constructivism, where art was to blaze a trail to a new society. Alas, since then art has had to do away with such high-flying ideas. However, no matter what the scale, this sculpture again offers new vistas as we move around it: a triangle, a square, an X and other sub-forms. Nor is there a single point of view from which to derive its preferred form. Where the Cube in the park was “in the round” orthogonally on its base, the Diacubo is in the round literally in a three-dimensional sense, which speaks of the artist’s aversion to pedestals that detract from the sculpture and bind it to the ground.

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