Public Art Details
Birds Fly Through Us: Arches
Artist: Ronald Gonzalez
Region: Archive
Location: Laumeier Sculpture Park
Address: 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO 63127
Artist Bio:
1952-
Year completed: 2000
Material: Welded steel, glass, wire, slag, metal filings, rust, bird nests, bird seed
Owner: Loan courtesy of the artist
Description:
Gonzalez, inspired at a young age by Rodin's Gates of Hell, tends to make work dealing with the ambiguity between life and death. Like Arches, many of his works rise up from a rectangle of floor or ground and emphasize repetition of form as well as different visual levels and layering.
Previously in Laumeier Sculpture Park's open fields.
