No. 08 / 20 · Movements, by Gastón Solís
Forme & Silence
the chrome geometric sculpture
Centre Pompidou, Cabinet d’Art Graphique · Paris · 1977

A chrome geometric sculpture, gleaming and faceless, mounted on a white plinth of just the right height to suggest, if you placed it in the right room, that it was a seated man, knees drawn up the way physicians now recommend.
The artist had died in 1971 — a fall on the stairs in Le Havre, drunk, not yet sixty — and left no notes and no preferred orientation. The inspectors in New York and Paris disagreed vigorously about which side was the front. The sculpture, in its chrome indifference, accommodates both.
Provenance
The artist’s studio, Le Havre, until the artist’s death, 1971; estate of the artist; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973 (acquired from the estate); transferred by exchange to the Centre Pompidou for Forme & Silence, 1977 (deaccessioned, 1985); private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1986; sale, Christie’s New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 8 November 1991, lot 47; the present collection, acquired at the above sale.



















