Artefact Type:

sculpture

Description:

This statue, developing the theme of the 'victory of the air', inaugurated a new direction taken by Thayaht in his sculptural work, consisting in using light metal foils instead of volumes to express movement and dynamism.

Material(s):

Silver-plated metal

Current Location:

Massimo and Sonia Cirulli archive, New York

Size:

cm 65, 5 x 60 x 52, 5

Notes:

Exhibited at 1931 Quadriennale. There exists a second copy of this sculpture, conserved at the CLM Seeber collection, Rome.

Artist(s):

Ernesto Michahelles (known as 'Thayaht')

Creation Start Date :

1931

Theme(s) :

Aerosculpture
Second Futurism

Tag(s) :

State art
Totalitarian art
Avant-gardism
Volumetry
Sacralization
Total work of art
Aesthetic modernity
Cultural system or apparatus