Rzeźba Przestrzenna 1925

Katarzyna Kobro made this sculpture, Rzeźba Przestrzenna, in white. It's a meeting of pure forms, right angles and smooth curves that twist around each other. I love how Kobro lets the materials speak for themselves. You can almost feel the cool smoothness of the painted surface, imagine the weight of each geometric element, and the way they all balance so perfectly. Notice how she creates a kind of dance between shadow and light; the whiteness isn't just a color, it's a presence that makes the whole composition glow. The curves especially, they look almost fluid, like a ribbon caught mid-air, which contrasts with the rigid lines of the rectangles. Kobro’s contemporary was the painter and sculptor Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Both artists pushed the boundaries of abstraction, and really understood that art isn’t about making a thing, but about opening a space for new ways of seeing. They both allow for ambiguity to let a multiplicity of meanings emerge.