CUBELANDIA - 1981

colore su aluminio | parallelepipedo dal cubo 50 cm3

Cubelandia is constructed from diagonals of a 50 cm3 cube and refers to the book Flatlandia by Edwin Abbott of 1884; the novel describes a world limited to two dimensions. The sculpture measuring approx. 2 m in length is hollow and coloured inside and out in red and green. From certain angles it suddenly turns mono-chrome. Another sculpture of the same form and dimension but not hollow is painted on each of the 6 sides in complementary colours. It is called Hommage à Albert Einstein and refers to his theory of relativity and the way space, mass, and the speed of light interrelate. Hommage and Cubelandia attempt to visualise this phenomenon by using the changing aspects of the sculptures as we move around them: we “know” that the sculptures display two or six colours, but this or that colour is suddenly lost, because we can never move as fast as light in order to see all of them.

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