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Hyun Nahm: Entropic Cities

Hyun Nahm: Entropic Cities
Portrait of HYUN NAHM, Courtesy the artist.

In the pantheon of influences on contemporary sculptors, Kazemir Malevich is a conspicuous outlier. Although best known for his non-objective paintings that subvert the correlation between form and meaning, he also created a handful of abstract sculptures that manifest the primacy of pure feeling to which he believed all art should aspire. The industrial aesthetic of these angular structures, called “Arkhitektons,” evince a brutalist presence that proclaims the dominance of the human intellect and the built environment over the natural landscape.