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No Cybernetic Exit (or) An Overview of Compensatory Reserves of Bituminous Coal
1954
77.63
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
9-1/2 x 21-1/2 x 8-3/4 in.
Accession NumberGift of Cornelia V. Christenson
CopyrightThis sculpture was made while Rickey taught at Indiana University in Bloomington in the early 1950s. He was commissioned to make this tabletop sculpture by one of his university colleagues, an economist and statistician who studied labor disputes in America’s bituminous coal industry. Professor Christenson’s published papers teemed with graphs and charts that marked trends in that industry, and Rickey used them as the inspiration for this sculpture. In this small, intricate construction, these “graphs” pivot slowly in space, one inside the other.
Kinetic sculpture let Rickey explore time and its impact on form. He defined his “new box of colors” as “gravity, momentum, moments of rotation, acceleration, and the laws governing movement.” Hoping to entice viewers to “wait, and wonder, what happens next,” Rickey intentionally made his works move slowly. His goal was to encourage viewers to stop and notice subtle changes.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
The Viewing Project: Wondering About Space
Indianapolis Museum of Art
December 21, 2009 - June 20, 2010
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