Additional Images

Provenance:

Private Collection, Ontario

Note:

These two (lots 27 & 34) 1979 drawings by Governor General's Award in Media and Visual Arts Laureate (2012) and Officer of the Order of Canada (2002) Royden Rabinowitch are beautiful and insightful. Royden Rabinowitch's sculptural and graphic work is distinguished by its intense engagement with the intersections of geometry, mathematics and physical experience.

One is dedicated to the artist's brother-in-law nicknamed Scooter, the other to his sister-in-law Jane, and both came from the home of Rabinowitch's mother-in-law. Each drawing has assured freehand images of a cone and sphere with conic intersections, a torus interior and a cylinder with each shape rendered in prismatic colours. These affecting and personal works variously allude to Rabinowitch's family, his later sculpture Éloges de Fonentelle (1984) in front of Toronto's Metro Convention Centre, a screenprint he made for documenta IX (1992, in which he exhibited), and most provocatively, the massive weatherproof steel sculptures of geometry made manifest that American artist Richard Serra began making in the middle 1990s.