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This piece is called Table Piece XCVII by Anthony Caro.
Perched on a pedestal is a multipart prism table piece by Charles Ross.
Never mind that his springboard for the table piece "One Flat Thing, reproduced" had something to do with Robert Scott's failed expedition to the South Pole.
You expect to see line in drawing, but Mr. Caro incorporates it into sculpture: the scrolling curves weaving through three horizontal rods in "Table Piece LXXX" call to mind musical notation on a staff; the delicate crescents animating "Table Piece LXXXVIII — Deluge" merge into an ornate calligraphy in steel.
And color, which you look for in painting, turns up repeatedly in Mr. Caro's sculptures: in the sparely elegant "Table Piece XLII," he sprays a gleaming sheath of emerald green on the polished metal; in "Table Piece CII," he paints the rhythmic sequence of tilted steel panels a flat banana yellow.
This key scene from Christopher Nolan's 2010 blockbuster Inception inspired one designer to mess with the physics of traditional furniture; producing a spectacular coffee table piece which sees a wooden city bend neatly over itself, creating fascinating edges and illusions in the process.
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The result has been the creation of 50 monumental outdoor sculptures, displayed across 165 acres on his properties in Cheshire and Woodbury, as well as 100 table pieces.
He isn't likely to put his nose to the grindstone and table pieces of legislation that please your tax accountant and nobody else.
It's harder to reconcile the lyrical "Table" pieces with the artist's later, more enigmatic work in ceramics, bronze and paper.
The key lies in the parenthetical phrase buried in the text above the table: "(Pieces varied in size)." According to Japanese tradition, a piece of sushi should fit comfortably in your mouth, to be devoured in a single bite.
Produced as a special art edition by Limoges and trimmed in silver, copper and gold, the table pieces seem to be a witty refinement of an inventive, iconoclastic imagination.
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