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Tau (sculpture)
American sculptor Tony Smith designed "“Tau”" in the early 1960s.〔"Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor" Robert Storr, p162(The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998)〕 It is 14’ high x 12’ wide x 12’ deep, and made from black painted steel. Its title refers to the Greek letter 'T', which also describes the shape of the sculpture.〔"Tony Smith" NJN State of the Arts www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCg3_p46QaA〕 Fascinated by mathematics, biology and crystals, Smith designed ''Tau'' with geometry at its root. There are two extant versions of the large sculpture: ''Tau'' (AP), and ''Tau'' (1/3).
==Description==
Many of Smith's sculptures were made up of a space lattice: groupings of simple platonic solids, in ''Taus case two such solids, octahedrons and tetrahedrons. The original model for the sculpture was created by Smith in 1961-62 using his signature process of joining small cardboard tetrahedrons, a process he began while recuperating after a severe automobile accident in the spring of 1961.〔"Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor" Robert Storr, p185 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998)〕
During this period, Smith was transitioning from his 20-year career in architecture to focus on painting and making sculptures. Smith had also started teaching at Hunter College, New York, in 1962. It took over 20 years for the piece to be installed outside the upper east side college at the 6 train's 68th Street entrance in 1984. In 2004, Hunter College held an exhibition, "Tracing Tau", curated by William C. Agee that offered an insight into the sculpture and its beginnings through paper models, drawings and plans of the work.〔http://www.johntoth.net/Hunter/Activities/TauActivity.htm〕
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