Materials	stainless steel
Height:	cm. 198.10
Width:	cm. 99.70

 

Luciano Fabro - Didactica Magna Minima Moralia

21.10.07 | 07.01.08

Imprint 1962 - 1964 Tubo da mettere tra i fiori [Tube to be Put among Flowers] 1963 / 2001 Raccordo anulare [Ring Link] 1963 - 1964 Buco [Hole] 1963 / 2005 Ruota [Wheel] 1964 / 2001 Tondo e rettangolo [Circle and Rectangle] 1964 / 2004 Struttura ortogonale assoggettata ai quattro vertici a tensione [Orthogonal structure subjected to four vertices in tension] 1964 Mezzo specchiato mezzo trasparente [Half Mirror Half Transparent] 1965 Tutto trasparente [All Transparent] 1965 / 2007 Croce [Cross] 1965 / 2001 Asta [Rod] 1965 / 2001 Squadra [Square] 1965 / 2001 In cubo [In Cube] 1966 Indumenti [Garments] 1966 Contatto. Tautologia[Contact. Tautology] 1967 Pavimento. Tautologia [Floor. Tautology ]   1967 Davanti, dietro, destra, sinistra, Cielo. Tautologia [in Front, Behind, Right, Left, Sky. Tautology] 1967 - 1968 Concetto spaziale [Trigon]. Tautologia [Spatial Concept [Trigon]. Tautology] 1967 Mappamondo Geodetico. Tautologia [Geodetic Globe. Tautology] 1968

Luciano Fabro

Foro da 8 mm. Tautologia [8 mm. Hole. Tautology]

1967

 

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The work consists of a rectangular steel sheet pierced by thousands of holes, each 8 millimeters in diameter, which sags and flexes under its own, weight forming a bight a few centimeters from the floor. Fabro cites the leading structures of Minimalism, their serial order and the industrial character of the rigidly abstract forms. Subjecting them to the laws of gravity and deformation of empirical space produces results close to Process Art.
Like a sky spangled with stars, the sheet of steel suggests an endless and absolute space because it could continue virtually in all directions. A universe that, far from following the laws of Euclidean geometry [the postulate of parallels], is curved, hyperbolical and aleatory, in perpetual movement (in space) and transformation (movement in time), hence devoid of a predetermined form. It is a universe traced by relativity theory, quantum theory and non-Euclidean geometry, which at the start of the twentieth century undermined the old certainties and strengthened the probabilistic and indeterministic conceptions developed by scientists such as Planck, Bohr and Heisenberg, giving contemporary man new spatiotemporal coordinates.