Details
Amilcar de Castro (1920-2002)
Untitled
signed with monogram 'AC' (on the verso)
iron
212 x 578 x 534 in. (6.4 x 14.9 x 14.6 cm.)
Executed in 1990.
Unique.
Provenance
Private Collection, Rio de Janeiro, 1992.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

Among the principal figures of Brazilian Neoconcretism, established in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the 1950s, de Castro explored subjectivity and phenomenological experience in his signature oxidized steel and iron sculptures. A characteristic example from his Cut and Fold series, the present work probes the morphology of space between two and three dimensions, animated here by the acute, triangular incision into the circular plane. The sculpture posits a dynamic reciprocity between its material form and its airy, expansive volume, continuously transformed by the play of light and shadow.

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