Sphere Luttetia Soto Analysis

The work of art I chose -- “Sphere Lutétia” is created by Jesús Rafael Soto. He was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist who born in 1923 and passed away in 2005, at the age of 81. Most of his artworks have shown the connection to space. This particular artistic form developed by Soto is broadly known as the “Penetrable”. The “Sphere Lutétia” that created in 1996 is regarded as a representative one. It has been exhibited in "Les Champs de la sculpture” in Paris and Miami Art Basel in 1996. And it was recently displayed in the Perrotin Gallery in Paris, France. This installation is made of painted cods in three colors – white, red and black. The whole sphere is in large size with a dimension of 600 x 600 x 600 cm. The large triple colored sphere is suspended to a square canopy and could be displayed either indoors or outdoors. Soto picked metal as …show more content…
The reason why I chose Soto’s work is that his works can only be appreciated when the spectators move. A single image would appear from the contrast presented, this new image would be printed in the spectator’s mind. Also, spectators could discover their visual sensitivity within the sphere’s inner elasticity and changeability, which become a medium in itself. Unlike normal paintings or sculptures that only engaged with static volumes, Soto’s installation could engage the “fourth dimension” of what he called “time – space”—that is, “a work in the process of physical change both requires a temporal period (time) and affects the physical sphere of its surroundings and viewers (space)”. The fluid geometric form of the sphere accentuates rhythms as well. What’s more, due to the inspiration of Arnold Schönberg’s non-hierarchical twelve-tone scale, Soto arranged the colors in series and combined them according to pre-established patterns. This is why his works have such strong dynamic and visual