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Solid Brass Sculpture by Charles O. Perry Titled Cassini

$1,600List Price

About the Item

Solid brass sculpture by the late Charles O. Perry (1929-2011) titled Cassini. It is signed on the stand C.O.Perry and numbered 135/1000. The sculpture is named after Giovanni Cassini, the astronomer who contemplated that a planetary orbit may not have to be on a plane, but could be along the intersection of a cylinder with a sphere. This Cassini piece then shows you can pack six such orbits at the same radius from the center. The Cassini has six cylindrical voids, two per x, y, z axis. Since 1964, Perry concentrated on large scale public sculpture, the most prestigious of which stands in front of the National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. The piece, "Continuum", began as an exploration of the Moebius strip, product of pure mathematics formed by joining two ends of a strip of paper after giving one end a 180 degree twist, thus creating only one edge. The center of the bronze sculpture symbolizes a black hole, while the edge shows the flow of matter through the center from positive to negative space and back again in a continuum. "When I set off to be an artist, I would avoid the arbitrary, esteem the orders of God in Nature, make forms that were beautiful, which appeared to have no author, forms you thought you had seen before; entwined with mathematics, geometry, topology, spinning, interlocking, always saying thank you God." Charles Perry's sculptures are located in public spaces at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Harvard University, Boston, MA; University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT; Zeimu University, Tokyo, Japan; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN; General Electric headquarters, Fairfield, CT; IBM headquarters, Charlotte, NC; Shell Oil, Melbourne, Australia and Singapore. There are over one hundred major commissions throughout the world. As an industrial designer, Perry has invented three unique IBD prize winning chairs. His patents on chair design are licensed to Krueger International, Steelcase, and Virco. Perry has designed various forms of art such as a collection of jewelry and silver objects for Tiffany, puzzles for the Museum of Modern Art, and a chess set which is in the Design Collection of MoMA. In recent years, Perry has frequently lectured on mathematics and art, in conferences throughout the world.

Dimensions:
Height: 5 in (12.7 cm)Diameter: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1980 s
Condition:
Very good.
Seller Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: U1208068798405

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