Vincas Jomantas
Landing object III
1971
Vincas Jomantas, Landing object III, 1992, fabricated bronze, 284 x 240 x 164 cm. Commissioned by the Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation with assistance from the Victorian Regional Galleries Art Foundation Fund 1992. Photo Mark Chew.
Teisutis Zikaras Landing object III was fabricated in bronze from a resin sculpture also in McClelland's collection. The principal component of Landing object III is the central cylindrical form from which a number of enigmatic wing and fin-like forms emerge. The form is carefully balanced atop a pyramid, connecting the terrestrial and the celestial, as though the object had just descended and landed from afar. The broad-winged configurations suggest an uneven and significant weigh distribution, giving the impression of levitation as the object balances on the pyramid. The way in which the work seems to defy gravity is suggestive of the extra-terrestrial and other-worldly.