Audio Tour Stop 16

No More Play, Alberto Giacometti

NGA, East Building, EU-415-B, CENTER
Part of East Building: Featured Selections (한국인)

위대한 초현실주의 조각가 중 한 명인 알베르토 자코메티(Alberto Giacometti)는 이 조각품과 같은 초기작에서 게임과 놀이의 테마를 통합할 때가 많았습니다. 자코메티가 이 작품에서 사용한 형태는 움직일 수 있는 조각으로 구성된 보드 게임과 비슷해 보이지만 무슨 게임인지는 불분명합니다. 노 모어 플레이(No More Play)에 표현된 “게임”의 모호한 공간과 알 수 없는 규칙은 꿈에서나 볼 수 있는 사물처럼 느껴집니다.

No More Play (Korean)
Carved from a slab of white marble, the top surface of this sculpture is covered with shallow, cuplike and deep rectangular depressions of various sizes. We look slightly down onto the slab in this photograph. The surface is divided into three vertical sections, which are defined by incised lines. The cuplike depressions are in the sections to the left and right. Two tiny, carved, dark wooden objects, like game pieces, stand upright in a cup with one the left and one to the right. Each piece is flat with a symmetrical design and a point at the bottom that inserts into the cup. The left piece has a disk flanked by triangular protrusions with a clover shape at top. The second piece has four stacked, small circles, and a U-shaped form to suggest the outline of a person with raised arms. Three smaller but deep rectangular cavities are carved into the middle section, and each one has a lid. Two lids sit askew on the top surface of the board near their respective openings, and inside are additional wooden pieces. A blank, rectangular section outlined with lightly inscised lines in the lower right is carved with reversed script letters that read, “on ne joue plus.” The entire surface has beveled edges, so it sits on a stepped base.
Alberto Giacometti, No More Play, 1931-1932, marble, wood, and bronze, Gift of The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.40.1

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