Programmed Figures

Pinchas Cohen Gan, artist

born 1942

Programmed Figures, 1980

Where object was made: Israel

Material/technique: plaster; wood; paint

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 45 x 62 x 7 7/8 in
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): each 114.3 x 157.5 x 20 cm

Credit line: Gift of Virginia Jennings Nadeau and Richard Pierre Nadeau

Accession number: 1991.0115.a,b

Not on display

Add to portfolio

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

After studying at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s, Cohen Gan began to create conceptual art that attempted to resolve what he characterized as the conflict between art and science. These two geometric, sculptural bodies were most likely created for his 1981 exhibition Programmed Figure in Curved Space, or Painted Solution to Advance Problem no. 457617. As seen in these two sculptural figures, during this period Cohen Gan explored conventions of space and form as part of his ongoing quest to reconcile art and science.