2024-05-02T06:55:31-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150018729/brutalist-sculptures-by-david-umemoto Anastasia Tokmakova 2017-07-21T13:05:00-04:00 >2021-10-12T01:42:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/q3/q39li93a9rzx94jk.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>David Umemoto's modular cubic sculptures are studies of volume&mdash;at the juncture of sculpture and architecture . The miniature concrete structures are monumental and re-arrangable, conveying numerous images.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>"They refer to the archaic and the ephemeral, despite the solidity and the modernity of the medium. Appearing before our eyes are pre-Columbian rock dwellings, god statues from the Andes or Easter Island, steles deteriorated by rain, remnants of modern cities having survived a cataclysm, fragments of Babylonian cities, colonial settlements brought down to their foundations, cenotaphs abandoned in the jungle&hellip;"</em></p> <figure><p><a href="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/1028x/au/auof7afxma8d7jip.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/1028x/au/auof7afxma8d7jip.jpg"></a></p><figcaption>Soma Cube IX in various configurations</figcaption></figure><p>The works are produced slowly, in imitation&nbsp;of cycles of nature, cycles of erosion and re-creation.&nbsp;<em>Lines shift, change and are in a state of perpetual mutation due to the influence of time and&nbsp;</em><em>weather. The natural architectures of geological strata and crystals stand as models: They inspire the design of the molds&nbsp;in which the concrete ...</em></p>