Artefacts

Vittoria dell'aria

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.

Size:
cm 65, 5 x 60 x 52, 5
Creation Start Date:
1931
Artist:
> Ernesto Michahelles (known as 'Thayaht')
Current Location:
> Massimo and Sonia Cirulli archive
Current Location:
> New York
Material:
> Silver-plated metal

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

Themes:

Aerosculpture Second Futurism