ICA Miami presents a new commission, Replicant Stone (2019) by Damián Ortega, the inaugural recipient of the Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture. Recognized for his monumental installations and sculptures that employ wit and intellectual rigor to highlight the unrealized social and political undertones of everyday objects, Ortega's Replicant Stone is a tribute to nature, geometry, and the legacies of Geometric expression. Using the form and effect of Pyrite stone, the work considers sculpture as an act of replication, synthesizing manmade and natural forms through engagement with geometric modernism and mathematical patterns.
