Square

Bryan Hunt

1976

A low, roughly square bronze slab with a dark patina whose rippled, waterlike surface makes heavy metal read as a fleeting skin—Hunt wanted to make bronze behave like moving water.

You'd be struck by the tension between its irregular, rocklike edges and the finely wrinkled top that catches light like tiny waves, so the piece alternately reads as solid mass and as a shallow, dark pool.

Made in the mid-1970s, it bridges Minimalist restraint and a more lyrical, post‑Minimalist materiality by using bronze and patination to evoke ephemeral natural phenomena and broaden sculpture’s expressive possibilities.

Palette

Art Terms

Sculpture Cast Patina Minimalism Abstraction

Exhibitions

The Sculpture of Richard Hunt

1971

Artist's Choice: Burton on Brancusi

1989

Sculpture from the Collection

1972

Modern Primitives: Artists of the People

1941