9 H-Shapes

Robert Morris

1968

Sculpture, 9 x (91.5 x 91.5 x 91.5 cm).
Materials: aluminium

Collection: Collection VAM, Eindhoven (Inv. no. 347).

In contemplation of the work '9 H-shapes' is clear that the experience of a form depends on the situation or position in which the shape is observed. This sensation was formulated by Morris as "a simple form does not necessarily coincide with a simple experience." In a varying insertion objects are affecting on the relationship between the object and the exhibition space. The 'corner' of Morris, for example, pulls wall and floor together and separates a small space located below our normal level from the exhibition space. Morris is interested in the contradiction between the form that is well-known (a cube from which a piece is removed) and the image that the eye perceives.

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