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Sculptures Floating in Space

Summary/Abstract: The significance of the oeuvre of Katarzyna Kobro(1898–1951) becomes fully clear when a precise analysis of the structure of her few sculptures,in which a union with space always played the most important role, is taken as the author’smain message. Aiming to express the inner harmony of shapes, Kobro invoked the Pythago-rean doctrine, according to which simple numbers and their interrelations are contained inthe structure of living organisms, and the most natural proportion is the “golden ratio”. Shechose the 5:8 ratio, which became an inviolable principle for the composition of her works.Each sculpture was prepared to interact freely with space. The model of condensation ofform proposed by Kobro, contained within the area of a cube or a cuboid all of whose ele-ments were slabs of colour, could be placed in any arrangement: vertically, horizontally orsideways. Kobro’s sculptures resisted the tendency to turn them into stationary architecturalcompositions; they sought to subjugate open space. The ideal solution for Kobro’s SpatialCompositions to exert a full impact would be a state of weightlessness; this would ultimatelycreate suitable conditions for the creation of an art of aerial “fusion of music and sculpture”,a “completely new – Cosmic Art”.

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