About the Object
This sculpture is a striking example of an interlocking sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, conceived in slate in 1945 and fabricated in bronze plate in 1988. The sculpture comprises three intersecting curvilinear plates, which are held together simply by gravity. The work derives its title from the code-name for the first atomic bomb test conducted by the U.S. army at Trinity site, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. It is an abstract representation of matter atomising. Its form resembles both the tower from which the bomb was dropped as well as the mushroom cloud of rising atomised matter.
Additional Information
The original black slate version of Trinity, 1945, is in the permanent collection of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York.
The Artist;
Gift to Forrest Meyers;
Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA;
Craig A Ponzio, Los Angeles, CA;
[Sotheby’s, New York, NY, November 17, 2021, lot 127];
Private Collection, acquired from the above, 2021-2024;
[White Cube, New York, NY and London, England];
London, England. White Cube Bermondsey. Isamu Noguchi: A New Nature, February 4 – April 3, 2022.
Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné. Digital, ongoing, no.234C-ap2.