\"Father of Spatial Structures\" G. Robert LeRicolais Hand Signed FDC For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Father of Spatial Structures" G. Robert LeRicolais Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1957. 

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Robert le Ricolais’s

wire-frame tensegrity structures may well stand as sculptural artworks in their

own right. His finely crafted forms appear to have a remarkable lightness,

insinuating objects of flight, part kite, part airship skeleton. Their balanced

forms create a meditative aerodynamic aesthetic, implying propulsion or

rotation. Some, throwing their graphic wire-frame shadows into space, defy

gravity through their nearly-not-thereness. The models were brought to light in

the mid 90’s by one of Ricolais previous students, professor Peter McCleary,

for an exhibition of the architects works. They had been grounded and captive

in various storerooms for over 20 years. Ricolais [1894-1977], like Buckmister

Fuller, was interested in structural morphology defined by tensional integrity

of natural structures – the ubiquitous soap bubble and sea shell. Ricolais ‘fantasized

of going inside a rope to find a new way to realize his central vision of zero

weight and infinite span’ Rather than the accretion of ideas to layer complex

forms of analysis, Ricolais preferred to work in the opposite direction,

simulating the Buddhist mindset – ‘the art of structure is where to put the

holes’.