Escultura transformable

In Escultura transformable, vertical wooden slats hinged together require the viewer’s participation to activate the work: form and color are to be experienced in real time and space, activating the fourth dimension. Born in Romania and relocating to Cuba in 1941, Sandú Darié practiced a vocabulary of geometric abstraction following the international trends of Constructivism and Concrete Art. By the mid-fifties he created Estructuras transformables (Transformable Structures), a series of highly original and experimental sculptural works that represent a critique of the artwork as a static and autonomous object. The notions of movement, participation, and shaped canvas alter the conventions of the picture plane to incorporate the space of the viewer. In other countries such as Brazil (with the Neoconcrete group), artistic experiments with form were gradually engaging the spectator in phenomenological terms beyond the purely visual. In the search for creating an art that would also transform life, Darié was one of the pioneers of kinetic sculpture.