Pyramid’s Shadow

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Pyramid’s Shadow

Artist Benni Efrat Israeli, born 1936

Date1978

DimensionsPyramid) H: 34 in. (86.4 cm); W: 48 in. (121.9 cm); Depth: 48 in. (121.9 cm); Shadow) H: 34 in. (86.4 cm); W: 63 in. (160 cm); Depth: 72 in. (182.9 cm)

MediumBronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineDr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Gosman

Object number

1983.119

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Sculpture Garden

Collections

Sculpture

Exhibition HistoryToledo, Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art, Citywide Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, 1984, no. 43, repr. p. 61.Label TextAs a conceptual artist, Benni Efrat highlights the importance of the idea behind a work of art instead of emphasizing the physical object. Pyramid’s Shadow dates to the 1970s, a time when Efrat was exploring the idea of the shadow. In this unassuming work, the smaller, open form is a representation of the shadow cast by the larger pyramid. Yet the pyramid’s shadow itself casts a shadow. With poetic brevity, Efrat’s sculpture complicates exactly what a ‘shadow’ really is.