Become part of the crowd by checking out this abstract sculpture.
From the Smithsonian Art Inventory website, we learn:
Description: Cut out elongated figures wrap around one another
Per the artist JOE FALSETTI “I grew up in Italy surrounded by
monumental sculpture. Therefore it was natural for me to create large
public sculpture. Since it has been used by most civilizations, I also
found it natural to use the human figure for inspiration.”
Falsetti, who was raised just outside of Pompeii, earned an MA from Ohio State University in 1962 and taught in the art department of the University of Missouri before coming to the University of Tennessee in 1974. He received outdoor sculpture grants to place work on both campuses and took part in a National Endowment for the Arts Community Art Project in Washington, DC. Falsetti has participated in
numerous invitational sculpture exhibits across the country and his works have been seen in solo shows at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, and the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga.
Falsetti was the recipient of a 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair Public Art Commission, which ultimately became one of the first two Tennessee Welcome Center Sculptures. Recalling that time, he reminisces “I immediately thought about families and citizens when I thought about the World’s Fair. I went to see the site and noticed the beautiful rolling hills. The shapes (in the sculpture) have a sort of roundness and a rhythm like the mountains in the background.”
Knoxville News reference