Larry Bell
Chicago, Illinois 1939
Photo credit Olivier Bell, 2015 / Courtesy Larry Bell Studio
I saw Bell's light-traversed crystal cubes for the first time in the Sonnabend gallery in Paris. I was greatly impressed that he had found a way of imprisioning light. The supreme element in the universe and the most elusive: immaterial, bodiless, weightless, pure energy. In the years following his work evolved into an environmental state.
Larry Bell, Light Brown Box, 1968. Coated glass, 50,8 x 50,8 x 50,8 cm. Panza Collection, Mendrisio. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Larry Bell, Two Glass Walls - Diagonal Top, 1973. Vacuum-plated glass, 182,6 x 261,9 x 126,7 cm. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2007, The Panza Collection. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Installation Focus La Collezione Panza di Biumo. La materia della forma, MART Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, April 2 - July 4, 2017. Larry Bell, Two Glass Walls, 1971-1972. Panza Collection, Mendrisio. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Rosa Giovanna Magnifico Panza di Biumo and PanzaCollection would like to thank the artist, the family and the institutions for granting image publishing.