It looks like a monstrous insect or the reconstructed skeleton of a winged dinosaur. Suspended from the ceiling of the central octagonal gallery at the Royal Academy, it spins slowly, casting a spiky silhouette against a circular white backcloth. Is it a bird, a plane – or a work of art?
In a sense, it’s all three. This beguiling contraption is a modern recreation of a glider originally designed by the visionary avant-garde Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin.
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