Magdalena Abakanowicz | Explore & Learn | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although Abakanowicz has created bird forms before, the current flock (1998-99) is larger in scale, demonstrating even greater potential for soaring the skies and existing in between the natural and the mechanistic, the realistic and the abstract. They display even more individuality within a series, each one navigating the skies in its own way. One resembles an advanced aircraft; another has the wingspan of a majestic bird such as the condor; and the third seems to hover in space like a hummingbird.

Bird II, III, and V, 1998-99 Installed on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999 Bird II, Aluminum; h. 109, w 60, d. 58 in. (276.9 x 152.4 x 147.3 cm) Bird III, Aluminum; h. 79, w. 78, d. 55 in. (220.7 x 198.1 x 139.9 cm) Bird V, Aluminum; h. 109, w 50, d. 48 in. (276.9 x 127.0 x 121.9 cm) Lent by the artist, courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York
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