''Antipodes'' is a public artwork by

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sculptor

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located outside of the

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Description

This sculpture consists of two copper curved pieces attached to a piece of petrified wood by steel bands. The "scrolls" have letters punched into them, one piece is in English and the other piece is "coded" in

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Acquisition

The original ''Antipodes'' is a 6-foot high version of the Hirshhorn sculpture that was created in 1992 which was purchased by art collectors Gilbert and Ann Kinney. The small piece was displayed on the terrace of the Kinney home and upon moving the couple donated the piece to the Hirshhorn. In 1997 the

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commissioned a large scale version of ''Antipodes'' for the Neuberger Biennial. After the Biennial, Sanborn traded the large piece for the smaller version to the Hirshhorn, hence it now residing outside the Washington-based museum. The smaller version of ''Antipodes'' has since been sold to a private collector in California via

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Information

This sculpture was inspired by Sanborn's ''

Kryptos ''Kryptos'' is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of ...

'' installation. The two texts refer to

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and

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operations. The English side of the sculpture repeats the text seen on ''Kryptos''. The ''Kryptos'' code is in four parts, three have been solved. However, select differences do exist between the text seen on ''Antipodes'' versus ''Kryptos'' such as spacing, additional dots and letters. The Cyrillic side has a large amount of text from another of Sanborn's pieces, '' Cyrillic Projector'', as well as additional text; all of the Cyrillic text has since been solved.

Gallery

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