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Zen Puzzle by Charles Perry
Zen Puzzle by Charles Perry

Zen Puzzle by Charles Perry

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Item Location: United States

$260.00

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r****t 163 $260.00 31.03.2022 23:14:03
P****r 141 $250.00 31.03.2022 23:14:03
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P****r 141 $159.00 29.03.2022 01:46:14
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Zen Puzzle was manufactured in 1987 by the artist and sculptor Charles Perry. The goal is to remove the 5 interlocking brass pieces, with one engraved by Charles Perry himself. The key piece is spring-loaded to keep its position.

29 × 63 mm Ø in Brass and Delrin.  Excellent patina.  Includes original bag and solution.

Charles O. Perry (1929-2011) was a creator, an artist of many dimensions who ponders the wonderful mysteries of the universe. His large scale and monumental sculptures celebrate and question the laws of nature. His intuitive investigation of nature's variables provides the springboard for many of Perry's concepts. Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry's work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical complexity of its genesis.

Since 1964, Perry concentrated on large scale public sculpture, the most prestigious of which stands in front of the National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. The piece, "Continuum", began as an exploration of the Moebius strip, product of pure mathematics formed by joining two ends of a strip of paper after giving one end a 180 degree twist, thus creating only one edge. The center of the bronze sculpture symbolizes a black hole, while the edge shows the flow of matter through the center from positive to negative space and back again in a continuum. Charles Perry's sculptures are located in public spaces with over one hundred major commissions throughout the world.

As an industrial designer, Perry has invented three unique IBD prize winning chairs. His patents on chair design are licensed to Krueger International, Steelcase, and Virco. Perry has designed various forms of art such as a collection of jewelry and silver objects for Tiffany, puzzles for the Museum of Modern Art, and a chess set which is in the Design Collection of MoMA. In recent years, Perry has frequently lectured on mathematics and art, in conferences throughout the world.

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