Naum Gabo

Constructivist artist Naum Gabo explored ideas of public art while launching his career in post-revolutionary Russia. He envisaged most of his sculptural projects as public monuments. Fascinated by the idea of civil aviation since early 1920s, Gabo experimented with designs for flying machines, buildings with helipads and monumental projects such as this work. Gabo envisaged this sculpture as a large-scale sculpture for an airport booking-hall or an outdoor monument. Using state-of-the-art materials such as Perspex, marketed in the late 1930s, allowed him to realise his early ideas on a larger scale.