Spanish sculptor Andreu Alfaro began working with industrial materials like steel and aluminum in the 1960s. Since 1970, he has been developing a formal language based on the serial repetition of geometric elements. Fanned out arrangements of square steel rods are characteristic of his work, as is the case with this sculpture. Som incorporates steel…

This sculpture is made up of multiple stainless steel rods that are attached to each other in the middle and fanned out to create a large spiraling starburst. Spanish artist Andreu Alfaro has produced variations of this formal principle in a number of his (often monumental) public sculptures. The result is graceful works that are…