Steel-Watercolor-Triangle-Ring

Benton Fletcher, who initially made kinetic sculptures for interior spaces, turned to outdoor steel sculptures in the mid-1970s, which he varied in a number of series. In addition to the “Alphabets,” the “Donuts” or the “One-Legged Tables,” these also include the group of the “Steel Watercolors,” to which this Cologne sculpture belongs. It is a towering composition of different geometrical segments, painted in a uniform signal red. It combines various slender struts, a circular segment and a complete circle, several cubes, some arranged in a staircase-like diagonal, and a massive triangle which at a considerable height marks the sculpture’s centre of gravity. In such compositions, the sculptor primarily strove to create an intuitive balance of the different elements and opposing forces.
The sculpture was donated by Modernes Köln – Gesellschaft für Stadtentwicklung m.b.H.