Index Code:

ART-SPC-PAN

Orgin:

France/Hungary

Field Notes:

Curved forms float pivot or mirror architecture so that reflection becomes part of structure

Defining Moment:

The lake pieces where white elements rotate on axes turning a pond into a calibrated kinetic plinth

Marta Pan

(

1923–2008

)

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Pan built a world where sculpture floats, rotates, or shifts with water and wind — forms responding to environmental rhythm.

Her works clarify motion as architectural balance.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Marta Pan’s work, this approach appears where sculptural form calibrates human scale.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Marta Pan’s work, this approach appears where sculptural form calibrates human scale.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Organic Architecture

Form grows from site, material, and human use.

Sculptural Modernism

Modernist form asserts volume, mass, and spatial presence.

Marta Pan

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

In Dialogue

Marta Pan

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue