Gyula Kosice
La ciudad hidroespacial

La ciudad hidroespacial

© Fundación Kosice - Museo Kosice, Buenos Aires

La ciudad hidroespacial
La ciudad hidroespacial
ArtistArgentinean, 1924–2016
CultureArgentinean
Titles
  • La ciudad hidroespacial
  • The Hydrospatial City
Date1946–1972
MediumAcrylic, paint, metal and light
DimensionsVariable dimensions
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2009.29.1-.26
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 100
On view

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This utopian exploration of space architecture illustrates some of Gyula Kosice’s fundamental preoccupations with water and space. Begun in 1946 and completed in 1972, La ciudad hidroespacial (The Hydrospacial City) is the Argentinean artist's most ambitious and longest-running project. By the early 1970s, the project had evolved into multiple sculptures/maquettes that now total 19 three-dimensional space habitats and 7 two-dimensional light boxes coming together in an immersive, single-room installation.


The work has emerged as a monumental, theoretical summary of Kosice’s use of innovative materials, light, and acrylic. Although many of the individual components have been exhibited in the past, the MFAH is the only museum in the world to house the complete La ciudad hidroespacial, a fascinating and poetic discourse on the intelligent relationship between civilization and community in the near future.


 


ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition History"North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 7–September 27, 2009.

"Cosmic Dialogues," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 14–August 23, 2015.

"Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954–1969," Palm Springs Art Museum, California, August 25, 2017–January 15, 2018.

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Viviendas hidroespaciales en la constelación de Yael
Gyula Kosice
1970
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and light
2009.29.1
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta Y
Gyula Kosice
1971
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.26
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta X
Gyula Kosice
1970
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.21
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta E
Gyula Kosice
1969
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.22
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta A
Gyula Kosice
1969
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.23
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta C
Gyula Kosice
1969
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.24
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta R
Gyula Kosice
1971
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.25
Hábitat Hidroespacial, Maqueta "Semiesfera suspendida"
Gyula Kosice
1967
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.9
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta G
Gyula Kosice
1969
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.10
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta K
Gyula Kosice
1969
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.8
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta B
Gyula Kosice
1969
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.11
Hábitat hidroespacial, maqueta ZI
Gyula Kosice
2004
Acrylic, Plexiglas, paint, and metal
2009.29.12