Naum Gabo was a Russian sculptor involved in the Constructivist movement alongside Vladimir Tatlin. Employing materials such as glass, celluloid, plastic, stone, and metal, Gabo produced sculptures which sought to redefine traditional views on form and space. “Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge,” he once reflected. “Knowledge is born of the desire to know, art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.” Born Naum Borisovich Pevzner on August 5, 1890 in Bryansk, Russia, the artist studied medicine, art history, and philosophy at the University of Munich. Gabo changed his given last name early in his career to distinguish himself from...