Damián Ortega, Replicant Stone, 2019, silicon bronze. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Commissioned by ICA Miami’s Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture. Installed in the ICA Miami Sculpture Garden
Damián Ortega’s *Replicant Stone* (2019) is a silicon bronze sculpture commissioned for ICA Miami’s Sculpture Garden as the first Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture. Its stacked, faceted cube forms take the shape and effect of pyrite, a mineral that grows in near-geometric crystals. Ortega explores sculpture as an act of replication and the meeting of modernist geometry with forms found in nature.
