“Instead of indicating space by an angular intersection of planes, I enclose the space in one continuous surface. I eliminate angularity in space construction and give space the curved character which it has to my perceptions.”
-Naum Gabo, quoted in: Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder, “Gabo’s Stones”
Sculpture no longer exists within a neutral and uniform medium of space but works upon it like raw material: it divides space rather than displaces it. Space, traditionally conceived as transparent and “empty,” is now visible and palpable; we perceive it through sculpture, which is no longer the closed, opaque mass it once was.
-Megan R. Luke in “Space for Recognition: The Late Work and Exile of Kurt Schwitters”
“Schwitters became extraordinarily talkative when it came to the column. He always had an anecdote, a story or some personal experience at his fingertips to explain the tiniest item that he kept in the niches of the column.”
-Nina Kandinsky