Square
Bryan Hunt
American, born 1947
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.
Medium
Bronze, patinated
Dimensions
5 3/8 x 17 x 19 1/4" (13.7 x 43 x 49 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of J. Frederic Byers III
Accession
211.1977
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