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Naum Gabo, Spiral Theme 1941
The Work of Naum Gabo © Nina & Graham Williams/Tate, London 2011
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When Spiral Theme was shown in wartime London, it was greeted with popular acclaim. The transparent planes build upon and reveal the sections below, suggesting emergence and growth. The critic Herbert Read hailed it as 'the highest point ever reached by the aesthetic intuition of man'. Gabo confessed: 'It is still a mystery and puzzle to me as to what precisely it is ... that has moved their hearts.'
December 2000
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