Winged Victory 1995
Commissioned outdoor sculpture spinning freely in the wind Los Angeles 1995 & the Atlanta Olympic Games 1996 SWATCH, Switzerland
SWATCH commissioned Lindfors to create the 8 meter (27 feet) high sculpture as a monument for the pavilion of SWATCH at the Olympic Park during the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996.
Winged Victory was first unveiled in front of UCLA in Westwood (Los Angeles) and remained on those grounds for a year prior to be moved to Atlanta for the Olympics.
The structure is welded aluminum round stock, the surface transparent fiberglass and two large-size clock faces in the shape of the original first Swatch watch were placed on both sides of the wing. Since the axle of the "clock tower" is off-centered the sculpture always stands against the wind as a flag or a sail. The sculpture is illuminated from within by outdoor halogen spotlights.
Lindfors wanted to show the direction of the wind as well as the time, both essential issues at the games that "Winged Victory" represented.
Excerpt from "Lindfors Rational Animal 2000": IN 1994, the Swiss company Swatch commissioned ten international designers and artists, including Lindfors, to create clock towers to commemorate the 1996 Summer Olympics. The towers were to be unveiled in different cities around the world during 1995. Lindfors' tower was unveiled on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles in October 1995. In Summer 1996 it was relocated to the entrance of the Swatch pavilion at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
