Isamu Noguchi - Grey Sun, 1967

Noguchi makes visible the basic forms and forces of nature
(Miranda McClintic)

Noguchi, the great Japanese mag. Objects that suck the space, objects that carry the space within themselves and make the effort to free the space, objects in silent dialog with the space: that is Noguchi. Magic of light, magic of post-Brancusian geometry, mixed with magic of Japanese essences, magic of black and white, and of infinite nuances between black and white, magic of grey.

The Sun of Noguchi is grey, it is the sun containing the whole Universe, and the Light, and the Darkness. It's over. There is no more past, no more future. We are beyond the end. The Sun is strong and bored. It is the Sun as the Unique Whole. It is the Sun as the Unique Nothingness.

It's almost Minimalism: this sculpture had sucked all its narrative within; still you feel that it was a narrative, the World which is no more.




(American Art and Portraiture)

(Isamu Noguchi)