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Lot Essay
For more than 30 years, Mark di Suvero has been performing the alchemy of transforming discarded metal and cast-off industrial material into configurations of elegance and strength that stand in the company of David Smith and Richard Serra to define American industrialized sculpture.
Barbara Rose has written of the artist's work: "All the sculptures he has made with pieces of industrial steel of various lengths, thicknesses and weights, with necessary clean cuts, are welded, rivetted or bolted together, connected according to variable but precise arrangements. Mark di Suvero uses the clearness of their geometry and accentuates their linearity. He respects their physical properties, which impose a logic for working and assembly, a dynamic handwriting, calling for mastery of an expression while at the same time emitting a powerful emotionality" (B. Rose, "Modernism and Memory," Mark di Suvero, exh. cat. Ivam Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, 1994, p. 114).
The cold-bend process was used in the fabrication of Navaho. It was made at the same time as Bygones, another monumental sculpture that is now in the Dallas Museum of Art.
Barbara Rose has written of the artist's work: "All the sculptures he has made with pieces of industrial steel of various lengths, thicknesses and weights, with necessary clean cuts, are welded, rivetted or bolted together, connected according to variable but precise arrangements. Mark di Suvero uses the clearness of their geometry and accentuates their linearity. He respects their physical properties, which impose a logic for working and assembly, a dynamic handwriting, calling for mastery of an expression while at the same time emitting a powerful emotionality" (B. Rose, "Modernism and Memory," Mark di Suvero, exh. cat. Ivam Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, 1994, p. 114).
The cold-bend process was used in the fabrication of Navaho. It was made at the same time as Bygones, another monumental sculpture that is now in the Dallas Museum of Art.