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Aparato Mágico
Édgar Negret1959/1959
Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Aparato Mágico
- Creator Lifespan: 1920 - 2012
- Creator Nationality: Colombian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Bogotá
- Creator Birth Place: Popayán
- Date: 1959/1959
- Sculptor: Edgar Negret
- Physical Dimensions: w35 x h19.5 x d20 in
- Description: In 1958, he began the remarkable series of Magic Gadgets, which he called “symbols of our age.” Introducing elements of myth and mystery into otherwise austere welded constructions, these “gadgets” play on the dialectics of industrial technology and transcendental nature, distilled in their curved, cutout forms and suggestively animistic character. -Text by Abigail McEwen
- Alternative Title: Magic Gadget
- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: aluminum and wood
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