SYNTHESIS OF SPATIAL THEORIES IN THE SCULPTURE OF THE PARK PLACE GROUP

The article analyzes the practices of the sculptors of the Park Place group, considered in the context of the artists' interest in a range of spatial theories, including geometric concepts of a multi-dimensional world. The specific focus of the work of sculptors on the study of spatial structures went beyond the theoretical discourse of the second half of the 20th century. This circumstance predetermined the fact that the group, influential in the artistic environment of the 1960s, was practically forgotten by the beginning of the twenty-first century, and remained unknown in Russian art history. The creative foundations of the Park Place Gallery group sculptors were based on a complex synthesis of artistic, scientific and quasi-scientific concepts. The article provides the most striking examples of spatial solutions in conjunction with the theoretical framework that served as a catalyst, source of inspiration, and sometimes direct guidance in the practices of Park Place. Such an emphasis on the ideological origins of new constructive forms will present a more complete, by no means monolithic picture of the formation of American modernist sculpture in the 1960s.