Lee Ufan: Making Infinity

       The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting Lee Ufan with an exibithion called “Marking Infinity”, the first North American museum devoted to the artist-philosopher Lee Ufan a preeminent sculptor, painter, and writer. One of the sculptures that caught my attention was “Relatum (formely system A)” 1969/88 Steel and Cotton. This sculpture shows a cube with steel plates whose seams were bursting with cotton. There is the illusion of the weight of cotton fibers pushing againts the steel plates, which amounts to an assault on the cube as a stable form of a closed system inside and outside the boundary. This to me represents the physical opening of the objects in the world of today. We can explore the coexistence of the structure and process of stability and transition. We change when the world changes.