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Mark di Suvero's Aesop's Fables, II (2005)

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Mark di Suvero is one of the most lauded and influential artists in the United States and Europe. Aesop's Fables, II (2005) is one of a long line of di Suvero's works embedded with a seminal childhood memory of space, scale, and structure. This large-scaled sculpture (11'5" x 32'4" x 13'7") is painted red and constructed primarily from industrial I-beams that are welded or bolted together.

Di Suvero's Aesop's Fables, II is sited on the lawn between East Annex Parking Lot and architect Frank Gehry's Stata Center and is made possible through the generosity of the artist, a gift of Sara-Ann and Robert D. Sanders (Class of 1964), and by MIT Percent-for-Art Funds for the Northeast Sector Landscape.  

About the Artist

Mark di Suvero was born in 1933 in Shanghai, China, where his parents were in the Italian diplomatic service.   At the outbreak of World War II, his family moved to San Francisco.   He began painting in 1953, entered college to study sculpture and philosophy, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956.   Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, di Suvero's work has been shown widely in the United States and Europe.   Di Suvero's work is represented in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.   He currently divides his time between large industrial studios in Petaluma, California, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, and a former brickyard on the edge of the East River in Long Island City, New York.