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Volume 4 of the Ernst Schering Foundation’s publication series
with contributions by Charlotte Klonk, David Familian, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and Thomas Wagner
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle tests Constantin Brâncuşi’s 1923-26 "Bird in Space" at ten times the speed of sound. Through a whimsical experiment, the sculpture as aesthetic object is taken out of its usual context of reception. The icon of modernity leaves a theoretical orbit and performs a hypothetical re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Tested at the US Air Force’s hypervelocity wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, Brâncuşi’s Bird is considered to be a key work of the 20th century, and art historians have seen it as a revolutionary new beginning in sculpture and the birth of modernity. With Bird in Space at MACH10, Manglano-Ovalle brings it back to Berlin.
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Release Place | Berlin, Germany |
Release Date | 2013 |
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978-3-942700-40-5
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Original Price | 19.00 |
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Language | German, English, German, English |
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Format | Softcover |
Dimensions | 14.8 × 20.0 cm |
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Pages | 148 |