He is his own sculpture that incorporates geometric forms, rhomboidal modules and truncated cubes. Peter’s main focus what his pursuit of the fourth dimension into large installations. He is very interested in the absence as in the presence. Forakis has discovered a method of cutting away steel forms. This was to take place of adding steel forms. This granted gravity and the materials abrupt weight to balance these massive objects without damaging them. Forakis believed that geometry is as way to stray away from the existence of abstract expressionism.
All of his work has mathematical disposition. For all of this he has created a sculptural vocabulary specific to his geographical and cultural beginnings. Forakis states “Geometry…is a natural law that exists not only in my thinking and my blood, bones, and marrow, but in the universe and all its matter”. In his overall thought of three-dimensional art is that is wasn’t satisfying enough. This is why he explored to find a door that led to the fourth dimension. The fourth dimension to Forakis is an absolute realm of pure visual sensation and meaning.
One of his pieces is titled “Park Place” which was relocated to 542 Broadway and closed in 1967. This piece has appeared in many public collections and humorous commissions. Forakis used “Park Place as an experimentation and exploration.”
Another piece that is explored the fourth dimension is the “Magic Box”. This box has a reflective exterior of two parallel rhomboids that are made of sheet metal and steel rods. Forakis saw the “dissolution of the planar surface” while showing “ mirrored space” which Forakis labeled as the fourth dimension.
"Magic Box"
Other works:
“Hyper cube” which was created in 1967.
"Tower of the Cheyenne" 1972
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