Space Modulator

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Oil and incised lines on Plexiglas.

The reflective and transparent qualities of plexiglass served the artist’s desire to modulate and activate light – his favorite medium. He strove to create the impression of movement often in unexpected ways and achieved unusual effects in this, using sheets with defects, as in this work. Moholy-Nagy, preferring sheets with bubbles, spots or cracks, emphasized their quality of casting shadows specially. He exploited the already created surface distortions and created vibrating effects, a sense of movement. The author also achieved this goal by repeating the figures, their mutual intersections.