Museum installation /// Chris Burden: Ode to Santos Dumont

Late Chris Burden’s monumental performance sculpture, Chris Burden: Ode to Santos Dumont pays homage to ingenuity, optimism, and the persistence of experimentation, failure, and innovation. Inspired by Brazilian-born pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, widely considered the father of aviation in France, the kinetic airship sculpture was completed in 2015 after a decade of research and work by Burden.

More information on the installation: http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/chris-burden-ode-santos-dumont