Cubos Incrustados 1978

Mathias Goeritz made "Cubos Incrustados" – Embedded Cubes - and, wow, what a title! It's like a puzzle in solid gold, or at least, it's got that shiny gold vibe. I really get a kick out of how Goeritz balances the clean, geometric forms with the slightly rough texture. You can almost see the hand of the artist there, which makes me feel like I'm in the studio with him, watching him put this thing together. Look how those cubes crash into each other! It's so dynamic and bold. I mean, it's just cubes, but somehow they feel like they're about to burst apart or maybe come together in some new way. It makes me think about the kind of stuff the Russian Constructivists were up to, all that geometry and utopian energy. There's definitely no one right way to see a thing like this, and that's the beauty of it, right?