Speed Inspired: Cube in Sphere

The arts provide the opportunities for inspiration, reflection, and connection needed now more than ever.

The Speed Inspired series invites local actors, creative writers, dancers, musicians, poets, visual artists, and creatives of all kinds to produce an original work in response to artworks from the Speed’s permanent collection. 

Stanislav Libenský
Czech, 1921 – 2002
Jaroslava Brychtová Czech, 1924 – 2020
Cube in Sphere, 1983
Cast glass
Partial and promised gift, Adele and Leonard Leight Collection 1992.18.27

FROM THE COLLECTION

Scott Erbes, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design:

Coming from a family of musicians, I love Gabe Evens’s take on Cube in Sphere—all of the arts and our creative spirits are truly related! In the cascading notes of his improvisation, I imagine the way light slips, slides, and dances over the sculpture’s curved surfaces. In the slower passages, I imagine the compressed cube captured within. Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová often experimented with contrasting geometric forms set within one another. For example, Cube in Sphere reversed the composition of an earlier work, Sphere in Cube. The couple’s interest in geometric study was shared by many of their fellow Czech glass artists. During the Soviet era, such work offered a degree of artistic freedom in an era of state censorship.

FROM THE COMMUNITY

Gabe Evens, Professor of Jazz Piano, Composition and Arranging at the University of Louisville. FULL BIO HERE

 

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