Omni International May 1973

Rockne Krebs

1938–2011

Omni International May 1973, 1973

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: acrylic; pastel; airbrushing; colored pencil

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 48.2 x 63.1 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 0.9764 x 24 13/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in

Credit line: Gift of Philip M. Smith

Accession number: 2010.0224

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Exhibition Label: "Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through," Aug-2013, Steve Goddard In this drawing, Krebs maps out his ideas for the installations Canis Major and Atlantis, which were commissioned by Maurice Alpert for the Omni International building in Atlanta (now the CNN Center). These works combined laser light, natural sunlight, mirrors, prisms, and reflections on the surface of a skating rink in the building’s atrium. The final material, used with utmost precision, was time. As the artist’s daughter Heather Krebs recalls, “on only two days a year, the spring and autumn equinoxes, the precise configuration of hundreds of prisms and sunlight created a portrait of his daughter’s eye, visible on the facade of the building.”