Agnes Denes (b. 1931 in Budapest) is a transdisciplinary artist born in Hungary and living in New York. Her works focus on natural and social history, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry, and music. Flying Fish Pyramid – A Floating Aquatic Habitat forms part of the pyramid series begun in 1969. “The series is an adaptation of the abstract mathematical field of probability theory for the creation of various structures: perfect pyramids that embody human knowledge and the paradoxes of existence. These forms function as the complex metaphors of our age; they are a medium for the portrayal of analytical statements in visual form. Their “perfection” is the language of logic and mathematics, communicating the ideal proportion of principles and values with a complex simplicity. (Agnes Denes
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