'Model for 'Construction in Space with Crystalline Centre'', Naum Gabo

Artwork details

Artist

Naum Gabo (1890‑1977)

Title

Model for 'Construction in Space with Crystalline Centre'

Date 1938

MediumPlastic

Dimensionsobject: 102 x 156 x 57 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the artist 1977

Reference

T02180

Not on display

Summary

During Naum Gabo’s stay in London, from March 1936 to September 1939, and then at Carbis Bay in Cornwall during the Second World War, he produced a series of important works in plastic, including Construction on a Line, 1935-7 (Tate T03054), Construction in Space (Crystal), 1937-9 (Tate T06978) and Construction in Space with Crystalline Centre. Where Gabo’s earlier sculptures incorporated a diversity of materials and tones, these works were made of clear plastics, achieving a new degree of conceptual purity. Construction in Space with Crystalline Centre, made entirely from transparent planes, provided an elegant formal solution to the challenge which Gabo had set himself twenty years earlier, that of expressing the dynamic interior of objects… (read more)