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In 1977 Indiana conceived a new version of his iconic LOVE sculpture, AHAVA, using the Hebrew word for “love” in the same distinctive quadripartite composition that he had developed in the mid-1960s. The work embodies Indiana’s unique approach to sculptural form, translating the two-dimensional written word into a monumental sculpture ...
12 kwi 2024 · In 2013 the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted the artist’s first New York retrospective, Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, curated by Barbara Haskell. Indiana passed away in his home on May 19, 2018, just a few weeks before the opening of his sculpture retrospective at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Read More.
30 maj 2018 · LOVE in all its iterations—translated by the artist into Spanish and Hebrew for sculptures; painted into an unprintable four-letter word after a falling out with Ellsworth Kelly; or repurposed...
15 mar 2022 · Meanwhile, an early poem by Indiana, Wherefore the Punctuation of the Heart (1958), included in the YSP exhibition, reveals the artist’s sculptural shaping of those four letters: LOVE.
25 gru 2013 · Perhaps Indiana created LOVE (1966) to soften the harsher messages of his art. Appearing first on a Christmas card published by the Museum of Modern Art, this four-letter image was soon...
31 gru 2020 · In 1977, artist Robert Indiana conceived a new version of his iconic LOVE sculpture, which he titled אהבה (ahava). It uses the four Hebrew letters that comprise the word for “love” in the same distinctive composition of the world-famous work of Pop Art.
Installation view of Robert Indiana: Letters, Words and Numbers, C&M Arts, New York, February 13–March 22, 2003. Left to right, USA 666 (The Sixth American Dream) (1964–66), Column Love (1964), Column Eat/Hug/Die (1964), and Column Eat/Hug/Err (1964)