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El puente [The Bridge]
El puente [The Bridge]

El puente [The Bridge]

Primary (Popayán, Colombia, 1920–Bogotá, Colombia, 2012)
NationalityColombian, South America
Date1972
MediumPainted aluminum sculpture
DimensionsOverall: 23 7/16 × 108 7/16 × 28 15/16 in. (59.5 × 275.5 × 73.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Arlene Bobker, 1978.78
Rights Statement
Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object number1978.78
On View
On view
Locations
  • exhibition  BMA, Gallery, C7 - Susman Galleries
Label Text
Edgar Negret was among the first Colombian artists to develop an international profile. He spent many years working in Paris and New York, where he befriended Ellsworth Kelly and other abstract artists in his circle. When Negret returned to Bogotá in 1963, he was already constructing modular sculptures with painted metal sheets joined together with visible screws and nuts. El puente combines industrial materials with an organic sense of form.