Mind Icon: Metaphorming Leonardo
Artist
Todd Siler
(American, born 1953)
CultureAmerican
Date2011
MediumResin
Dimensions2 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (6.4 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineGifts of Lynn Gumpert in memory of Amy L. Brandt (1978-2015), the McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art from 2011 to 2015
Object number2016.27.2
Not on view
Description3d sculpture made of resin, depicting the inside of Leonardo da Vinci's brain. Siler places great stock on “Metaphorming,” what he understands as the human ability to change and achieve brilliant insights, a notion connected to his ideas of genius. Siler’s Mind icons are provocative images of the inside of a brain, in this case Leonardo’s, his great hero. His Mind icons are ultimately about “what we’re evolving towards”Label Text ProvenanceThe work was a 2011 gift of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, who commissioned it from the artist. The work was a gift to the donor, Lynn Gumpert, from Ronald Felman Fine Arts. Lynn Gumpert donated the work to the Chrysler Museum of Art in September 2016.
Unknown
late 19th or early 20th century
