(Untitled)
Robert Morris
American, 1931–2018
1968
A room-sized, low mound of felt, asphalt, and scattered metal and mirrors laid directly on the gallery floor, made to shift sculpture from a polished object into a tactile, material event that asks viewers to rethink weight, texture, and space.
What would strike you is the almost geological sweep of matted gray fibers—at once soft and industrial—spreading across the wood floor like a disturbed shoreline, its rough surface punctuated by glints of metal and small mirrors that invite you to move around and lean in.
Made during the rise of Minimalism and Post-Minimalist practice, this work helped open sculpture to process, gravity, and bodily perception, privileging material behavior and viewer encounter over traditional form and monumentality.
Medium
Felt, asphalt, mirrors, wood, copper tubing, steel cable, and lead
Dimensions
Dimensions variable, approximately 21 1/2" x 21' 11" x 16' 9" (54.6 x 668 x 510.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Philip Johnson
Accession
504.1984
Palette
Exhibitions
