Naum Gabo
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Gabo elaborated many of his ideas in the Constructivist ''Realistic Manifesto'', which he issued with his brother, sculptor Antoine Pevsner as a handbill accompanying their 1920 open-air exhibition in Moscow. In it, he sought to move past Cubism and Futurism, renouncing what he saw as the static, decorative use of color, line, volume and solid mass in favor of a new element he called "the kinetic rhythms (…) the basic forms of our perception of real time." Gabo held a utopian belief in the power of sculpture—specifically abstract, Constructivist sculpture—to express human experience and spirituality in tune with modernity, social progress, and advances in science and technology. After working on a smaller scale in England during the war years (1936-1946), Gabo moved to the United States, where he received several public sculpture commissions, only some of which he completed. These include ''Constructie'', a commemorative monument in front of the Bijenkorf Department Store (1954, unveiled in 1957) in Rotterdam, and ''Revolving Torsion'', a large fountain outside St Thomas' Hospital in London. The Tate Gallery, in Millbank, London, held a major retrospective of Gabo's work in 1966 and holds many key works in its collection, as do the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York. Work by Gabo is also included at Rockefeller Center in New York City and The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York, US. Provided by Wikipedia
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3Classmark: BK2 Fischer, Berta BG-Hb 0015/2021BBook
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4Published 1988Other Authors: “…Gabo, Naum…”
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6Published 1971Other Authors: “…Gabo, Naum…”
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