(Stockholm, Sweden, 1929 - 2022, New York, New York)
1975
Cast synthetic rubber
17 x 18 x 10 in. (43.2 x 45.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the artist
1976.31
This piece, a study for the museum's six-foot tall sculpture, is cast from Hytrel, a manmade rubber used to make hoses, gaskets, and a range of other industrial products. The outdoor sculpture was to have been constructed from Hytrel as well in homage to Akron’s role as a rubber producer. When the sculpture’s large size made that impossible, however, it was cast from concrete instead and coated with a polyurethane surface.
Inscribed on underside: "Trial Proof VI 7/75"