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Lot Essay
Compare with: C. Blotkamp, Carel Visser, Utrecht/Antwerpen 1989, p. 72, no. 56 (ill.)
Blotkamp writes about an earlier version of Airship from 1954: "The four elongated elements suggest the silhouette of a kind of zeppelin, the open space in between being subtly articulated by small rods which cross one another, joining the two vertical and the two horizontal parts. They serve to indicate that what we are seeing is a volume, even though it is filled with air. Equally subtle is the treatment of the extremeties of the work. The four elements have only one point of contact, which is shifted inwards. Otherwise they are all separate from one another. Down to the last detail, the construction of the work is transparently clear." (Blotkamp, op.cit, p. 72)
Blotkamp writes about an earlier version of Airship from 1954: "The four elongated elements suggest the silhouette of a kind of zeppelin, the open space in between being subtly articulated by small rods which cross one another, joining the two vertical and the two horizontal parts. They serve to indicate that what we are seeing is a volume, even though it is filled with air. Equally subtle is the treatment of the extremeties of the work. The four elements have only one point of contact, which is shifted inwards. Otherwise they are all separate from one another. Down to the last detail, the construction of the work is transparently clear." (Blotkamp, op.cit, p. 72)