Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Bird in Space at MACH10
19 September–16 November, 2013
Opening: 18 September, 7pm
Schering Stiftung (Ernst Schering Foundation)
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
Hours: Monday–Saturday 11am–6pm
Closed public holidays, admission is free
info [at] scheringstiftung.de
Constantin Brancusi’s L’Oiseau dans l’espace, or Bird in Space, from 1923 to 1926 is one of the most influential sculptures of the 20th century; some critics even consider it to be a revolutionary new beginning in sculpture and the origin of modernity. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle has tested what would happen if this icon of modernity left its theoretical orbit and performed a hypothetical re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed ten times that of sound in a hypervelocity wind tunnel at the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Suspended in flight, Bird in Space at MACH 10 confronts the values of modernity with those of our own time.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the fourth volume of the publication series of the Ernst Schering Foundation will be published with argobooks. It includes essays by David Familian and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Charlotte Klonk as well as Thomas Wagner.
For more information please contact:
Isabelle Geisthardt, Public Relations, Ernst Schering Foundation
T +49 30 20 62 29 60 / geisthardt [at] scheringstiftung.de
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*Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Bird In Space Prototype for MACH 10 Hypervelocity Test, 2012. Steel, aluminum, high-density resin, concrete, 181.6 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm. Produced in collaboration with the United States Air Force, Arnold Engineering Development Center and University of Maryland, College Park. © 2012 Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica. Photo © 2012 Christopher Grimes Gallery.