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2011

  • Work on this object began.

2023

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2025

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Model, Progress

This is a Model. It is dated 2011. Its medium is 3d-printed resin, recreated for exhibition; staged 2011, take that european stadium tour . It is a part of the department.


“Progress marked the re-emergence of British band Take That after 16 years apart. As a portrait of this popular band’s odyssey, we created a 20-meter-high faceted male figure that rose up from the stage and progressed across the stadium. The ambitious moving sculpture seemed impossible. A number of fabricators declined to take it on, but we refused to be deterred. The size of the figure’s head was determined by the height of a bridge in Hamburg, Germany, the lowest clearance it would encounter on its European tour.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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