Infinite Cube
Maker
Antony Gormley
(British (English), b. 1950)
AfterAfter an idea by
Gabriel Mitchell
(American, 1973 - 2012)
Date2014
MediumMirrored glass and acrylic with internal copper wire matrix of 1,000 hand-soldered omnidirectional LED lights; metal table
DimensionsCube: 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (92.7 × 92.7 × 92.7 cm)
Table: 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (92.7 × 92.7 × 92.7 cm)
Overall: 73 × 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (185.4 × 92.7 × 92.7 cm)
Table: 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (92.7 × 92.7 × 92.7 cm)
Overall: 73 × 36 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (185.4 × 92.7 × 92.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Antony Gormley and W. J. T. Mitchell
Object number2014.63
Status
On viewBritish sculptor Antony Gormley wants viewers to experience his sculptures as extensions of their own minds and bodies. “We are minds encased in human bodies and our bodies are encased in architecture,” he has said. Infinite Cube pays homage to the late filmmaker Gabriel Mitchell, whose films used the concept of the grid to explore the experience of mental illness. Mitchell saw the infinite cube as a way of thinking about the infinity of thought itself. Here, the grid of lights evokes both a cityscape and a boundless mental architecture composed of the flickering connections of memory and thought.
