Escultura no Hall das Bandeiras da Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais 1988

Amilcar de Castro built this huge sculpture out of steel for the Hall of Flags at the Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais, and when you’re faced with it, you just know it has always been there. The sculpture is a feat of engineering, sure, but it's also a really vulnerable thing, this big slice of metal. I can imagine de Castro, a trained draughtsman, just thinking about the material, feeling how it can be bent and pulled. He’s one of those artists who just want to mess with geometry, to challenge the very limits of what it can do. That deep, almost mournful brown, really makes you think about time passing, about the weather, about the weight of things. I wonder if de Castro even thought of it as a gateway or an eye? It reminds me a bit of Richard Serra's work; they were all in dialogue with each other. I can’t help thinking of all the conversations that this sculpture sparks. It’s why we keep looking and making.