Fence Flieger | 2008 | Standard industry protection fence | 270 x 520 x 55 cm
Fence Flieger
Otto Lilienthal, a pioneer of the development of gliders in the second half of the 19th century once said: “To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly one is everything.” This statement sums up man’s age-old and eternal desire to be a master of the skies, and our desire today to undertake increasingly long and luxurious journeys in aircraft of ever increasing dimensions.
Otto Lilienthal’s simple and poetic dream of being able to glide alone over the countryside is captured in a skeleton of his glider’s wing construction, made of steel from a security fence
that was erected to keep ordinary, inquisitive people out of high tech production plant.
