Ricardo Brey
(c)photo: M HKA, Courtesy of the artist and Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Parallel Universe, 2009
Mixed Media
, 23 x 31 x 300 cm (two parts, 1-iron base/ 2- line of dice)
dice, iron, sawdust
Universe (2001), the title piece of Brey's 2006 exhibition, took the form of a column of dice that looked as if it might topple over, but was, in fact, quite securely anchored. Eight years later, Brey produced a horizontally aligned sibling to the improbable verticality of Universe. Anchored by a rod to a metal base set on the floor, Parallel Universe splays out laterally like a squatting clothes-horse. The accumulation and weight of the dice and their supports causes the "arms" of the sculpture to bow, so that in addition to its anthropomorphic connotations, the piece resembles a pair of scales or the balancing pole of a highwire acrobat.
(source: Welchman, John. Qué le Importa al Tigre una Raya Más: The Futility of Good Intentions, p.59)
