The Double X

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The Double X

Artist: Larry Bell (American, born 1939)

Date: 1989

Dimensions:

84 x 82 in. (213.4 x 208.3 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, to the Margaret Pace Willson Collection of Contemporary Art

Object number: 2002.2

Signed: Signed and dated, lower right

Label Text

Larry Bell is best known for his Minimalist sculptures and installations that use glass to explore light and perception; this work demonstrates similar pursuits but in two dimensions. The Double X is part of the artist’s Mirage Works series, which derives its name from the optical phenomenon that creates a mirage: when heat refracts light rays, displacing the appearance of an object in space. To achieve the mirage-like illusion of The Double X, Bell collaged reflective materials such as Mylar and other foil-coated films, which he had experimented with vaporizing, alongside nonmetallic materials, creating what appears to be a painting.

(Anna Stothart, 2016)

Not on view

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The Double X

The Double X