Walking

Mediums: bronze..
Location: The Denver Museum of Art, Colorado (the USA).

This innovative bronze statue, contrasting with its internal concave volumes with external curved lines, is one of the artist’s early works. Empty spaces in the middle of the body and head create a rather abstract form while maintaining the dynamic rhythm of a human figure moving in space. The introduction to sculpture, which was always monolithic, of “negative space” (simulated emptiness) revolutionized the approach to sculpting in general. In some ways, Arkhipenko repeated the “tubular” works of cubist Leger, but he said, “I did not take Cubism but made additions to it”.