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to the north, and new hospital buildings to the east and south. It is a working fountain, with water emitted in streams from some of the sculpture's curved edges. It was originally designed to rotate slowly, once every 10 minutes, but the mechanism has not worked for several years.
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plates, creating a stack of intersecting curves, deliberately unadorned and without colour. The sculpture was manufactured in 1972–73 by
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The sculpture is the culmination of an idea that Gabo developed in the mid-1920s to implement the ideas published in his 1920
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The work was installed in 1975 in the centre of a circular pool of water in a square garden at St Thomas' Hospital, with the
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from 1929–37, a 35 centimetres (14 in)-high model also in Perspex; and his 1960–64
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Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae)
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
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Upton Park—with Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson
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Constructivist
Naum Gabo
Tate Gallery
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
St Thomas' Hospital
Lambeth
Grade II* listed
Realistic Manifesto
Perspex
Norman Reid
stainless steel
Stainless Metalcraft
Alistair McAlpine
River Thames
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"The bright red work of art (and 40 others) now protected"
"Four South Bank sculptures given listed status"
Revolving Torsion
Revolving Torsion, Fountain 1972–3
Torsion (Project for a Fountain) 1960–4
Model for Torsion c.1928
Torsion 1928–36

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