No. 09 / 20 · Movements, by Gastón Solís
Homage to the Seated Form
the concentric squares
Yale University Art Gallery, Print Study Room · New Haven · 1976

The house keeps a square for the body's quiet hour. Nothing in the body is square. The skull is a vessel; the eye is a sphere; the lung is a branching tree. The heart is a fist, the stomach a sack, the liver a wedge. The bones are levers and hinges and sockets. The intestine is a coil. The spine is a column that has agreed, at every joint, to behave like a wave. The mouth is an arch, the womb a chamber, the ear a spiral. Even the cell, examined, is round. The body has been refusing the right angle since the right angle was offered. The room is square; the bowl, mercifully, is not.
Provenance
The artist’s studio, New Haven, c. 1973; gift to a faculty colleague, Yale University, 1974; lent to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, for Homage to the Seated Form, 1976; private collection, New Haven, until 2002; sale, Skinner, Boston, 13 September 2003, lot 119; the present collection.



















