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ESSAYS
Well-established and well-regarded in her native Puerto Rico, Ada Bobonis is known for her spare, elegant sculpture, always inventive in its use of modular units. In the sculpture installation Cilindro (Cylinder), Ada Bobonis reveals many noteworthy characteristics of her work: the influence of minimalist and feminist art, reference to nature and architectural structure, and the relationship between personal and monumental scale.
Bobonis's use of the horizontal planes of ceiling and floor, sky and earth, are reminiscent of early Carl Andre sculpture, yet she is also surprising in her use of natural and industrial materials, in the manner of Eva Hesse.
Cilindro creates the phenomenological experience of entering a pristine, geometrically defined space. It combines the minimalist grid organization and the feminist adoption of craft materials and technique. The work appears elegantly abstract, yet has a relationship to nature that is personal. Always cognizant of the variations of the natural world, Bobonis䴜s sculpture seems to reveal the underlying structure as well.
Laura Roulet
Independent curator
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