Untitled
Gilberto Zorio
Italian, born 1944
1973
A drawing in black and colored ink on graph paper in which Gilberto Zorio arranges intersecting diagonals and a carefully shaded central rod to turn measurement and potential movement into a poised, object-like diagram.
The pale printed grid and fine, technical lines read like a plan, but your eye is arrested by the centrally placed, modeled baton and a single red stroke where lines converge, giving the quiet composition a taut, kinetic tension.
Rooted in Arte Povera concerns, the work collapses diagram and sculpture—making visible the artist’s interest in process, material activation, and the space between conceptual planning and physical experiment.
Medium
Black and colored ink on graph paper
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 13" (21 x 33 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Maja Oeri
Accession
849.2011
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