Olive and Black

Jesús Rafael Soto · 1966

This is Olive and Black, by Jesús Rafael Soto, nineteen sixty-six — metal strips suspended in front of two painted panels. Walk past it rather than standing still: the strips and the pattern behind them beat against each other, and the surface appears to vibrate. It only works if you move.

Medium Metal strips suspended in front of two plywood panels painted with synthetic polymer paint and mounted on board · Dimensions 61 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 12 1/2" (156.1 x 107.1 x 31.7 cm) · Credit Inter-American Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 410: Untitled

More by Jesús Rafael Soto here: Homage to Yves Klein, Displacement of a Luminous Element, Double Transparency, Untitled