Sometimes museums have these enigma objects that seem totally unrelated to anything. Objects that are seem somehow out of place in the collection. They’re always awesome, evidence of an artist stepping outside of tradition, experimenting and undertaking aesthetic risk. Lee Bontecou’s untitled (fish) is one of those objects, a vacuum molded plastic sculpture of a fish that might seem more at home in a natural history museum than amongst it’s modern art contemporaries at LACMA.
The Hammer had a retrospective of Bontecou’s work in 2003 that has some great images, including one of another fish sculpture.
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