BACK TO SCULPTURE

 

I'm finished with the Powell Symphony Hall tour and will return to the STL public sculpture series. It's going to be bitterly cold here for a while with snow over the weekend so I will weenie out and dip into the archives. The series started with a picture of Igor Mitoraj's Eros Bendato in Citygarden. Another one of his works, Icarus, is a few blocks away. This is just a detail. Apparently, his wax wings have just melted. Ooohhh Nooo!                    

Something's Missing

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Not long ago I had a post with a detail from Igor Mitoraj's Icarus, a sculpture in the Old Post Office Plaza. It is a brother to the same artist's Eros Bendato in Citygarden.

Here's another detail of the same work. You can guess about the meaning if you know the Greek myth of Icarus (or click this link). Classic legend or not, do you ever have a day when you feel like this? I do.

Icarus

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The Greek legend of Icarus tells of an ambitious man. He was full of self-confidence, convincing himself that he could fly on bird's wings made of wax. He got off the ground, all right, but flew too close to the sun. The wax melted and he plunged into the sea to his doom.

This is a detail from Igor Mitoraj's Icarus, on display in the Old Post Office Plaza downtown. Readers may remember Mitoraj as the creator of Eros Bendato in Citygarden, seen several times on this blog. Icarus' face reminds me of Mr. Bill on Saturday Night Live years ago: oooh nooooo! What does the rest of the sculpture look like? All in good time.

Lots to shoot this weekend. The Great Forest Park Balloon Race is on Saturday with the walk-through balloon glow tonight. The PR people for some late night cable TV comedy show I never heard of invited me to shoot a publicity stunt they are staging tomorrow. Teams of two or more people in pajamas (late night TV, get it?) will race around downtown on wheeled televisions. It's not any crazier than the Tea Party rally.