About this artwork
With its base a half-section cylinder supporting a concave-convex vertical screen, 'Kimo' consists of a complex interplay of forms. The highly polished surface picks up and reflects the surroundings, distorting light and images. In contrast to earlier work, here Paolozzi pays respect to the extreme finish of sculpture from modernist times, eliminating traces of manufacture and notions of craftsmanship.
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artist:Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) Scottish
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title:Kimo
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date created:1967
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materials:Chrome-plated steel
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measurements:36.70 x 33.30 x 20.50 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
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accession number:GMA 4066
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi
Of Italian descent, Paolozzi was born in Leith near Edinburgh. He studied in Edinburgh and London and spent two years in Paris from 1947, where he produced enigmatic, bronze sculptures reminiscent of those by Giacometti. During the same period he made a series of dada and surrealist-inspired...