We have a sculpture coming to the ‘hood! Thanks to Sarah Harkins Arnold’s curiosity about what a Public Works crew was up to near the WaterWise garden, I learned a sculpture is being moved from the Springfield Art Museum to the greenspace between the tennis courts and the garden. Here’s the “explainer” I got from a friend at the parks department:
The Springfield-Greene County Park Board is partnering with the Springfield Art Museum to provide a home for “Triangulum,” a large sculpture on the museum’s west lawn that has to be relocated prior to work beginning on the stormwater project. So, in short, the concrete pad pictured below is the future new home of “Triangulum.”
About Triangulum
Triangulum is a bronze sculpture by Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt. Hunt’s career in sculpture began in 1955, when as a student, he began to exhibit sculpture around Chicago at art fairs, in small galleries, and local art centers. During the next twelve years he worked as a independent studio artist, and in 1967, began to work on his first commissioned sculpture that launched his career as a public artist.
Hunt, one of the foremost African-American sculptors of his time, has completed commissions and public art throughout the United States, been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and his work has been included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
In 2009, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine. He is often quoted speaking about the public art process.
Photo credit: studiochicago.blogspot.com
“Outside the studio, the sculptor’s horizons broaden to the limits of the possible; that is to the extent the sculptor can conceive of, and master, the interactive possibilities. These possibilities are often realized through the creative interaction of the artist with patrons, or patron groups in their conception, and with engineers, technicians, and tradesmen in their execution. Outside of the studio, the sculptor’s internal dialogue gives way to the dialogue that a sculpture sets up with the environment the sculpture is created for.
Public sculpture responds to the dynamics of a community, or of those in it, who have a use for sculpture. It is this aspect of use, of utility, that gives public sculpture its vital and lively place in the public mind.”
