It's tough to describe in the abstract the strange magic of Harry Bertoia's sound sculptures. The Italian-born, Pennsylvania-based artist--who died in 1978 at age 63 of lung cancer, possibly a victim of the carcinogenic beryllium copper he loved to work with--spent the last 10 years of his life obsessively investigating the aural possibilities of metal, and making audio recordings of the results of his experiments. His sculptures come in all shapes and sizes--many are constructed of vertical rod...
It's tough to describe in the abstract the strange magic of Harry Bertoia's sound sculptures. The Italian-born, Pennsylvania-based artist--who died in 1978 at age 63 of lung cancer, possibly a victim of the carcinogenic beryllium copper he loved to work with--spent the last 10 years of his life obsessively investigating the aural possibilities of metal, and making audio recordings of the results of his experiments. His sculptures come in all shapes and sizes--many are constructed of vertical rod...
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