{"product_id":"blue-and-purple-tilted-cube-acrylic-sculpture-60cm","title":"Blue \u0026 Purple Tilted Cube Acrylic Sculpture - 60cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cube of acrylic, this sculpture is tipped onto one of its own edges, so that it rests on two corners with a level edge at the top and its upper faces leaning away from you. The cut is deliberately coarse: a handful of broad planes rather than the fine faceting of a desk-scale piece, which leaves each face wide enough to hold one colour across its full width. Saturated magenta and violet fill the upper faces, cyan runs through the middle, and the foot goes pale green and cream where the film falls away from the angle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Regular Solid Tipped Onto One Edge\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding a cube on an edge is a balance problem before it is a sculptural one, and the answer is in the edge rather than in the body. The whole weight of the block comes down along that one edge and onto the two corners at its ends, and the block is set so that the edge at the top runs level above it. Get that wrong by a degree and the piece stands at a tilt that reads as an accident, which on a regular solid is the one thing the eye catches immediately. The coarse planes are chosen for the same reason: at this scale a broad face returns one clean colour, and the composition is then a handful of large decisions rather than a shimmer. Each block is cut and balanced individually, so the resting angle differs a little from piece to piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cube tipped onto an edge is floor and plinth work rather than shelf work. It suits a position with room around it, seen from several sides: the turn of a room, beside a stair, on a broad hearth, or on a plinth in a hall where it is approached from a distance and then passed close. Because it leans, the face that greets somebody arriving is a decision worth making before it is set down. Give it side light. Frontal light hits the leaning upper faces square and washes them out, while light raking across from a window picks up the edges and shows the piece is standing on an edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBalance, Film and What Arrives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs standard the build runs 3–4 weeks, and as a bespoke commission 5–6. The scale, the cut and the film are all agreed when it is ordered: it can be made at hall height, or cut with many more planes. The film runs from the magenta-violet used here through gold-to-rose and green-to-cyan, and on a solid this size it can be applied to alternate faces only, so half the block stays clear and the colour reads as something inside it. The resting edge can also be cut to a wider flat for a firmer stance on a soft floor. Nothing needs assembling: it is lowered onto its resting edge and turned into place, held by two broad faces and never by the top edge. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cube tipped onto one edge, violet above and cyan through its middle, answers to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/geometric-sculptures\"\u003egeometric sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/acrylic-sculptures\"\u003eacrylic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDichroic Acrylic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54024172699995,"sku":"C041","price":2977.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C041.jpg?v=1792007501","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/blue-and-purple-tilted-cube-acrylic-sculpture-60cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}