Antipodes (sculpture)

Antipodes
Antipodes
Artist	Jim Sanborn
Year	1997
Type	Copper and petrified wood
Dimensions	240 cm × 190 cm × 66 cm (96 in × 75 in × 26 in)
Location	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States
	38°53′16.65″N 77°1′21.22″W / 38.8879583°N 77.0225611°W
Owner	Smithsonian Institution

Antipodes is a public artwork by

Washington, DC, United States.^[1]

Description

This sculpture consists of two copper curved pieces attached to a piece of petrified wood by steel bands. The "scrolls" have letters punched into them, one piece is in English and the other piece is "coded" in

Cyrillic.^[1]^[2]

Acquisition

The original Antipodes is a 6-foot high version of the Hirshhorn sculpture that was created in 1992 which was purchased by art collectors Gilbert and Ann Kinney. The small piece was displayed on the terrace of the Kinney home and upon moving the couple donated the piece to the Hirshhorn. In 1997 the Neuberger Museum of Art commissioned a large scale version of Antipodes for the Neuberger Biennial. After the Biennial, Sanborn traded the large piece for the smaller version to the Hirshhorn, hence it now residing outside the Washington-based museum. The smaller version of Antipodes has since been sold to a private collector in California via L.A. Louver.^[3]

Information

This sculpture was inspired by Sanborn's

covert

operations. The English side of the sculpture repeats the text seen on Kryptos. The Kryptos code is in four parts, three have been solved. However, select differences do exist between the text seen on Antipodes versus Kryptos such as spacing, additional dots and letters.
The Cyrillic side has a large amount of text from another of Sanborn's pieces, Cyrillic Projector, as well as additional text; all of the Cyrillic text has since been solved.^[4]

Gallery

Proper Right/Back

Proper Left

Label

See also

Cyrillic Projector

Cryptanalysis

Kryptos

List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2

References

^ ^a ^b Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2008). "Antipodes (sculpture)". Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture. Smithsonian. Retrieved 3 January 2010.

^ vhasler (2010). "Antipodes - Washington, DC". Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures. Waymarking. Retrieved 3 January 2010.

^ Elonka Dunin (2005). "Antipodes". Sanborn. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.

^ "Antipodes: The Sanborn Sculpture at Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.--John's Antipodes / Covert Balance Main Page". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2011.

External links

Antipodes on the Hirshhorn website

Antipodes on Gowalla

Crack Positioning - discussing Kryptos and Antipodes

John's Antipodes / Covert Balance / Untitled Kryptos Main Page - a page that discusses the cryptology behind the work

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Sculptures

Kryptos (1990)

Coastline (1993)

Cyrillic Projector (1993)

Antipodes (1997)

Caloosahatchee Manuscripts (2001)

Lingua (2002)

Critical Assembly (2003)

A,A (2004)

Terrestrial Physics (2010)

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antipodes_(sculpture)&oldid=1185402999"

[Antipodes-1] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2008). "Antipodes (sculpture)". Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture. Smithsonian. Retrieved 3 January 2010.

[Waymarking-2] vhasler (2010). "Antipodes - Washington, DC". Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures. Waymarking. Retrieved 3 January 2010.

[Elonka-3] Elonka Dunin (2005). "Antipodes". Sanborn. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.

[4] "Antipodes: The Sanborn Sculpture at Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.--John's Antipodes / Covert Balance Main Page". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2011.

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