Ronald Bladen: Flying Fortress
Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to present Ronald Bladen: Flying Fortress. The exhibition consists of a single large-scale 22-foot work and two preliminary drawings.
After a competition that included entries by Richard Serra and Claes Oldenburg, Bladen was selected to create Flying Fortress to stand in front of the engineering school at the University of D眉sseldorf. Though the project was canceled after the director鈥檚 sudden death, Bladen wrote tellingly of Flying Fortress at the time of the commission:
鈥淭he motivation of this form was to produce the illusion of a stationary object moving through space yet anchored to the earth. Not to give one that much time to dwell on it but more to feel as it rushes by. There is a front and a back and two sides but only one direction.鈥�
Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to present Ronald Bladen: Flying Fortress. The exhibition consists of a single large-scale 22-foot work and two preliminary drawings.
After a competition that included entries by Richard Serra and Claes Oldenburg, Bladen was selected to create Flying Fortress to stand in front of the engineering school at the University of D眉sseldorf. Though the project was canceled after the director鈥檚 sudden death, Bladen wrote tellingly of Flying Fortress at the time of the commission:
鈥淭he motivation of this form was to produce the illusion of a stationary object moving through space yet anchored to the earth. Not to give one that much time to dwell on it but more to feel as it rushes by. There is a front and a back and two sides but only one direction.鈥�
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