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This daytime long exposure photograph is of the Black Sun sculpture created in 1969 by artist Isamu Noguchi found in Seattle's Volunteer Park. The Space Needle can be seen in the center hole through the sculpture.
A place setting on a traditional Japanese dining table. This part of a display at the 2014 Philadelphia Flower Show.
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The Noguchi Museum (original warehouse, 1929; Isamu Noguchi and Shoji Sadao, mainly 1982-1983, with garden installed in 1985). Formerly Noguchi's studio, this is probably one of my favorite archi-spots in NYC: a reliably calming and absorbing visit, whatever the current exhibits are. I don't think I can really say too much of interest about the design itself, though I think the primary concrete-block addition is a great neutral foil for Noguchi's stone sculptures, and does lovely things with indoor/outdoor continuity. It's just really nice!
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By Said Karlsson - saidkarlsson.com/blog
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"The Black Sun was installed at SAAM on Capitol Hill in 1969. Hard to remember now, but American-born sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was once considered a rather daring modernist, an avant-garde cohort of Calder, Giacometti, and Rivera. Placing the big black circle directly in front of the 1933 Deco-influenced museum design (by the UW’s Carl F. Gould)—in an Olmsted park, no less!—seemed a bit of a slap at convention. Such temerity! How did it fit with the collection, with the prevailing conservative orthodoxy of the city’s tastemakers and benefactors? But Noguchi, with his American mother and Japanese father, was all about contradictions—or resolving them. He trained in New York and Japan. His abstract pieces drew inspiration from natural forms, but he was also an urbanite who designed opera sets. Though Black Sun—expanded on commission to nine feet in diameter from a similar earlier piece—is sited in the city, it’s an emphatic reminder of the water and other natural shaping agents that surround us. The granite, quarried in Brazil and hewn in Japan, offers a famous donut-hole view of the Space Needle, which was still new when the sculpture was lowered (off center) onto its plinth. Tourists love to frame photos through that peephole, looking west (across the ocean to Japan, where Noguchi worked and traveled). But reverse that perspective and you’re looking east, back at Gould’s museum, whose design and collection were then mostly European. Black Sun is an aperture, a transitional portal between traditions of seeing and collecting art. Certainly it marked a change in Seattle’s appreciation for sculptures that didn’t depict white men on horseback. Whether Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” is named for the disc is something you’ll have to ask Chris Cornell."
- Brian Miller