Two Lines Oblique

George Rickey held a DAAD scholarship in Berlin in 1968 and 1969. With the support of a German patron, he donated the sculpture in Bad Godesberg as a means of saying thank you for the grant.

Being that it distinctively expresses his primary motif – geometric elements floating seemingly weightlessly in perfect balance – the artist repeatedly created variations on the theme of the Two Lines Oblique in other works.

Although the connection is invisible, the two linear steel elements are attached to the Y-shaped support in such a way that they are set in motion by even the slightest breeze. The scientific principle of a pendulum is perfectly incorporated in the design of the sculpture, resulting in an ever-changing choreography of dancing lines and driven by the laws of nature: gravity and air currents.

George Rickey

1907
geboren in South Bend, Indiana, USA; 2002 gestorben in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
1926–1929
Geschichtsstudium in Oxford.
1929–1930
Studium in Paris, es folgte eine Lehrertätigkeit in den USA. Rickey arbeitete zunächst als Maler.
1942
Eintritt in die US-Army.
1945
Erste Mobiles werden angeregt durch das Werk Alexander Calders.
nach 1945
Kunststudium am New Yorker Institute of Fine Arts und dem Chicago Institute of Design.
1968 und 1969
Stipendiat des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes in Berlin.
1964
Teilnahme an der documenta.
1968
Teilnahme an der documenta.
1977
Teilnahme an der documenta.
1987
wird George Rickey Mitglied der Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
 
Rickey wurde vor allem durch seine kinetischen Skulpturen bekannt.
 Quellen:
de.wikipedia.org
 
www.george-rickey.com
Images:
Photos © Carsten Gliese
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Location
Bonn
Bonn, in front of the Wissenschaftszentrum, Ahrstraße
Artist
George Rickey
Year
1970
Size
Height: 8 m
Material
Steel
Object type
Kinetic works
Approach
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