After Iyengar
1978
Bronze
Robert Engman
American, b. Pennsylvania 1927
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Named after the Indian Yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar, the sculpture has been carefully placed at the intersection of two of the Garden’s long grassy hallways. Visitors have commented that the work appears to be an optical puzzle because from each new vantage point new shapes appear. Its wonderfully dynamic geometric form twists together circles and a square to create an Escher-like quality to the bronze.