The White Cube 1982

This is Stephen Antonakos’s “White Cube,” and I’m thinking about how it came into being. Imagine the initial, raw form slowly refined to its pure geometrical shape! I bet Antonakos, like many artists, questioned what the cube represented. It's so formal and still, yet the neon light around the base introduces something more playful and destabilizing. It complicates the solid form and almost makes it float! What would it have been like to install this? To plug it in, step back, and watch it glow? Antonakos's work speaks to the minimalist tradition and artists like Dan Flavin. Artists are always in conversation with each other. They push and pull, testing the boundaries, and challenging our ways of seeing. Each work, each idea builds upon what has come before, moving us into new places.