Red Stone

Mediums: stone.
Location: Tate Gallery, London (the UK).

Gabo, known in the world for his Constructivist compositions of plastics, threads, metal, in the 1960s showed interest in more organic materials. Accordingly, the form also changed, but the author’s intentions continued to lie in the plane of visualization of abstract ideas. This unusual sculpture is a kind of endless spiral carved on an ammonite fossil. It is known that when the sculptor lived in England (from 1936 to 1946), he spent a lot of time with fellow artists B. Nicholson and B. Hepworth on the Cornish coast in St. Ives. Then he became a collector of stones – mainly pebbles, finding interesting specimens on the beach. The sculpture 46 cm in diameter weighs 70 kg.