Documented artwork / kinetic glass installation

In 20 Steps

Twenty articulated glass wings translate successive stages of flight into a kinetic installation. Their movement changes reflected light while exploring the desire to fly and the tension between gravity and motion.

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Year / version: 2015
Materials: glass
Documented setting: unknown
Dimensions: Not documented
Dimensions apply to: Not documented
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2015
Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Murano, Venice
Site
Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Murano
Start year
2015
Installation details checked 2026-09-21.
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How this work was made and presented

In 20 Steps at Glasstress Gotika, Murano, 2015

Motion gives the glass its subject

Fondazione Berengo records In 20 Steps as a 2015 work combining glass, motors and light. Twenty glass wings carry a continuous movement that refers to the human desire to fly. That combination makes the mechanisms part of the work’s identity, alongside its fragile, translucent surfaces. This history makes the work a useful precedent for treating fragile material and repeated movement as a single artistic system. For a new setting, the visual composition, mechanical access and viewing distance would need to be considered together around the particular installation.

Fondazione Berengo — Studio Drift ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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How will the installation balance an uninterrupted view with access to its moving components?

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Relationship to In 20 Little Steps, FOG 2017

A related smaller work has its own identity

DRIFT explicitly describes In 20 Little Steps as a scaled-down version of In 20 Steps, released with Pace Gallery at the 2017 FOG art fair. Its twenty glass wings present stages of flight, with moving glass redirecting natural light. That separate title and presentation history are important when comparing available photographs or project references. A planning conversation should establish which work or version is being discussed before transferring dimensions, support assumptions or lighting expectations from one presentation to another, even when their forms appear closely related.

DRIFT — In 20 Little Steps ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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Kinetic sculpture and installations ↗