Cluster of Four Cubes

Uploaded this clip i took a while back in the Sulpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art, DC. The cubes move independent of each other, seemingly move on their own without aid! Really interesting art...



Cluster of Four Cubes - George Rickey

Check out the information given on the main National Gallery of Art website.

George Rickey began to produce kinetic sculpture in the late
1940s. Intrigued by both the history of constructivist art and by the example of
Calder's mobiles, he developed systems of motion that made his works respond to
the slightest variations in the flow of air currents. Rickey's kinetic sculpture
provides a dialogue between ordered geometric shapes and random motion.

The massive element of Cluster of Four Cubes is appended by ball bearings to slender
arms that branch from a central post. Each cube is precisely weighted and
balanced, engineered to turn effortlessly in the lightest breeze; they glide,
nearly brushing one another in an intricate and graceful dance that belies their
apparent bulk