April 1984. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 5 × 8 × 6 ft.
Loop brings two large granite slabs into a dynamic relationship through a sweeping curved steel I-beam that literally “loops” between them, giving the sculpture its title. The beam recovered from the same Chicago fire-demolition site that later provided the curved steel for Carnegie Rounder. (S-84-05) and Los Arcos (S-85-20). Its naturally bent form allowed me to move beyond the stricter structural language of my earlier work toward the more circular, gestural vocabulary that was developing in the Go-Round and Rounder works.
Equally important is the way the sculpture is put together. The exposed pins, plates, brackets, and other fastening devices are deliberately brought forward as both visual and conceptual elements rather than concealed. This emphasis on visible assembly is a vestige of my earlier tensegrity, or Brute Series, where the forces holding a sculpture together were an essential part of its meaning. In Loop, that structural honesty becomes integrated with a more expressive sense of movement and gesture.
April 1984. Granite, steel. Dimensions: 5 × 8 × 6 ft.
Loop brings two large granite slabs into a dynamic relationship through a sweeping curved steel I-beam that literally “loops” between them, giving the sculpture its title. The beam recovered from the same Chicago fire-demolition site that later provided the curved steel for Carnegie Rounder. (S-84-05) and Los Arcos (S-85-20). Its naturally bent form allowed me to move beyond the stricter structural language of my earlier work toward the more circular, gestural vocabulary that was developing in the Go-Round and Rounder works.
Equally important is the way the sculpture is put together. The exposed pins, plates, brackets, and other fastening devices are deliberately brought forward as both visual and conceptual elements rather than concealed. This emphasis on visible assembly is a vestige of my earlier tensegrity, or Brute Series, where the forces holding a sculpture together were an essential part of its meaning. In Loop, that structural honesty becomes integrated with a more expressive sense of movement and gesture.
