Two Volumes in the Virtual

Object Details

Artist

Jesús Rafael Soto, French, b. Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, 1923–2005

Provenance

Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, to 7 August 1968

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 7 August 1968-6 March 1972

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ibero-American Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection

Exhibition," 8 October-15 November 1981, unpublished checklist, no. 19.

]MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, Long Beach. "Jesús Soto: The Universality of the Immaterial," 19 November 2005-19 March 2006, unnumbered checklist, ill.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works from the Collection," 15 February-8 April 2007, no cat.

Published References

UNSIGNED. "It'll Move You," Press-Telegram U (18 November 2005), n.p.

GOTTLIEB, SHIRLE. "Sheer Energy," Press-Telegram U (2 December 2005), p. 25.

UNSIGNED. "Jesus Soto Exhibit Open at Museum of Latin American Art," Signal Tribune (1 December 2005), p. 2.

CHANG, RICHARD. "Art: Jesus Rafael Soto," The Orange County Register (4 December 2005), p. 18.

SCARBOROUGH, JAMES. "MoLAA Makes Soto's Kinetic Art Work," Grunion Gazette (15 December 2005), p. 13B.

KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. "Soto: Playful Experiments in Perception and Reality," Calendar (7 January 2006), p. E1.

UNSIGNED. "El arte en movimieto de Jesus Soto," People en Espanol (February 2006).

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 242, p. 268.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

1968

Accession Number

72.273

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Metal, paint, fiberboard, wood, and paper

Dimensions

118 1/2 x 78 7/8 x 78 3/4 in. (301 x 200.3 x 200 cm)

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Record ID

hmsg_72.273

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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