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''Temple VI'', a public sculpture by American artist Austin Collins, is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The piece is on an indefinite loan from the artist to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and is located outside of the east entrance to Lecture Hall, a building on IUPUI’s campus. Lecture Hall, nicknamed LE on campus maps, is located at 325 University Boulevard in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States. The sculpture was created in 1996. ''Temple VI'' is 3.67' long by 2.5' wide by 10.33' high. The metal work of public art has a base of four pieces made from the same steel material that is bolted to the concrete sidewalk. On the lower proper right portion of the sculpture, near the base, lies a foundry mark that identifies the title, artist, and location of the sculpture's creation. ==Description== ''Temple VI'' is an abstract steel sculpture consisting of a four-footed base that rises to a central, rectangular raised platform that supports the upper portion of the sculpture. The main body of ''Temple VI'' is similar to a vertical I-beam with extra pieces welded onto the body. Some of these additions are crossing, semi-circular pieces; others are dagger-like pieces that hang from a higher level; still others are square blocks that were added. At the top of the sculpture lies a circular level piece with a tall, abstract form extending into the air. A foundry mark just above the feet of the base on the proper fight side tells the title, artist, and location of creation for ''Temple VI''. It reads: Temple VI, by Austin Collins, Notre Dame, Indiana. Artist Austin Collins has been quoted as saying: "In my recent work, The Temple Series, I hope to invoke in the viewer a sense of sacred space, of retreating, of reflection. By constructing a space with abstract geometric steel forms, referencing architecture, games, and toys, ''Temple VII'' (the Temple series ) generates a bodily response from both structural and compositional. According to the IUPUI Community Relations Virtual Art Tour, Collins has described the Temple Series "as celebrating the convolutions of the individual by first isolating the self as unique, and then by reintroducing that self into a community of similar and dissimilar selves which, taken together, form a more whole or complete landscape that ultimately gives the self meaning". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Temple VI」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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