Artwork Details
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Cardboard box tower
Description
cardboard sculpture
Date
1967
Materials and Technique
painted | painted
Dimensions
778 (h) x 215 (b) x 215 (d) cm
Owner
SMK National Gallery of Denmark
IDname
PG-S-36-0
Exhibitions
Anthology
Jane Pedersen on the Cardboard Box Tower
In 1967 Poul Gernes exhibited a sculpture The Tower, which was about 6-7 m high. It was made after he had made his series of small and large sculptures in simple geometric shapes. It was as if in The Tower he summed up all these forms, drove them to the extreme by simply placing them on top of each other in a tower-like shape. The material was cardboard from cardboard boxes, and it was all painted in the same gray color.
Jane Pedersen: Der er dejligt i Danmark – viser Poul Gernes. Copenhagen 1971 p. 92. Excerpt. Translation by Klara Karolines Fond.
Cardboard box tower
Photo: Statens Museum for Kunst
Cardboard box tower
Photo: Statens Museum for Kunst
Cardboard box tower
Cardboard box tower