Gallactascope
Gallactascope
Gallactascope

© Alex Gross

Gallactascope
Gallactascope
Gallactascope

Currently not on view

Gallactascope,

1969

Alex Gross, born 1931, Roslyn Heights, NY; active Los Angeles, CA
Astrakan
y1973-83
Kinetic art in the Forbes Collection exemplifies the period of technological idealism that followed World War II, leading artists to experiment with electricity and industrial materials to develop work that could transcend the idea of artistic medium and recenter the meaning of art in the perceptual experience of the viewer. Additionally, this practice presages the increasing globalization of the art world in the second half of the twentieth century and the diasporic experience of artists from Europe and Latin America following the war.

Information

Title
Gallactascope
Dates

1969

Maker
Alex Gross
Astrakan
Medium
Electric sculpture
Dimensions
33 × 31.5 × 39 cm (13 × 12 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Forbes Magazine Collection
Object Number
y1973-83
Description
Liquid forms of contrasting colors in continuous, opposing motion.
Culture
American
Type
multimedia works
Materials
rubber, glass, plastic
Subject
projectors (image projectors)

[Howard Wise Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, New York, gift; to Princeton University Art Museum, 1973.

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