Atlanta airport, sculpture proposal
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
GIFRE · “WINGS OF ATLANTA” sculpture
Category: Sculpture (Contest finalist)
Artist: PERE GIFRE
Project manager: DANIEL MOLINA
Partners: Jose María Velasco (AMATRIA Engineering) and Lorenzo Barón (Manufacture Manager)
Place: Transition Hall · Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
This Project, “Wings of Atlanta” has been chosen as one of the five projects selected to submit a large hanging sculpture proposal (23x14x5m) for the Transition Hall site of Atlanta International Airport (USA), the busiest airport in the world over 90 million passengers a year.
I had several objectives when approaching the concept and what it should represent: it had to be avant-garde, surprising, symbolic, easily recognizable, dynamic, interactive and it also had to represent flight as something magical and evoke into the viewer the sensation of freedom, the breaking of barriers and reaching new limits. It had to be internationally symbolic and at the same time represent Atlanta and the United States. I also wanted it to represent the beauty of nature and the fragile environment that we have to protect.