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Stele 200
1992
Marta Pan
Sculpture
200 x 20 x 8 cm
MartaPan’s sculpture is concerned with the pursuit of geometric simplicity and theexploration of themes of balance and equilibrium. Her work is always sensitiveto the nuances of its environment: to the landscape, to the subtle inflectionsof changing light, to wind and water, and to architecture. Her early work wasinfluenced by her marriage to André Wogensky, at that time the main assistantto Le Corbusier. Maurice Béjart created a ballet around her piece Le Teck,which was premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier’s famous Unité in Marseille.She went on to make series of Floating Sculptures, reflecting the depth towhich architecture has influenced her work. The balanced, meditative qualitiesof her work have led to particularly warm appreciation in the east.
After moving to Paris in 1947, Pan met Brancusi and Léger, and later worked with Le Corbusier. Up until 1960, her sculptures are made of two pieces of wood whose mobility allows their shape to be altered. The same mobility and movement can also be found in her floating polyester sculptures and in her concrete Puzzles.
Architecture is another source that inspired her to make monumental works that are a continuation and extension of urbanism. Her recent work brings together sensuality, purism and evidence of form in a kind of classicism of abstract sculpture.
Kröller Müller Museum in Otterloo, Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Paris, Orders for the cities of Paris, Evry, Grenoble, Rouen and Firminy.
Artwork of
Marta Pan
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