Lunar Landscape
Lunar Landscape
Artist
Isamu Noguchi
(1904 - 1988)
Date1943
MediumMagnesite cement, electric lights, colored acetate sheets, cork, and string
Dimensions35 x 25 1/4 x 7 in. (88.9 x 64.1 x 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.101
Signedverso: Isamu 1943
Accession number
2006.101
On View
Not on viewLabel TextLunar Landscape glows with the reflection of light from a hidden source - just as the moon glows at night from the reflected light of the unseen sun. Isamu Noguchi used a complex arrangement of colored acetate filters and concealed light bulbs to create this effect. The curvy, biomorphic forms of the illuminated sculpture evoke both an otherworldly landscape and shapes of the human body. Cork spheres on fishing line seem to hang in orbit, like satellites or planets.
