“Flying Colours”

Hanging sculpture for the entrance hall of the new building of the secondary school in Henstedt-Ulzburg, Schleswig-Holstein

The hanging sculpture “Flying Colours” consists of a spiral-shaped, graphic line made of stainless steel tubing that encircles three large sails made of spinnaker fabric arranged one above the other.

The brightly coloured, light-transparent surfaces are offset against each other in a lively rhythm in the ascending and descending movement of the spiral. Both the individual leaves and the object as a whole are suspended so that they can rotate freely , thus developing a life of their own when the air moves.

The sculpture thus provides a colorful accent in the hall and playfully echoes the three-story architecture.

The

interplay of materials, form, and free suspension in

space reveals the conceptual dimension of the object: the

leaf-like shape of the “sails” refers on the one hand to nature,

and on the other hand, through the materiality of the spinnaker fabric, to the world of

water sports and hang gliding, transforming the object into a vehicle

of freedom of thought.

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