Dedicated 2011
Conceptually, the sculpture "La Favola" was created to address the differences between two similar materials as a fundamental metaphor. A metallurgical “yin and yang,” the sculpture is fabricated from the two polar magnetic properties of steel, the non-magnetic properties of stainless steel and the magnetic properties of corten steel.
“Can stainless steel make for a seamless interaction with corten steel, or is it the other way around? All this within a sixty-inch circle, a place to lean and reach across, wherein there is no beginning, no ending.”
Table is tavola in Italian. Fable is favola in Italian. The words rhyme in both languages. And thus, for the artist, the title for this sculpture: "La Favola," is a familiar and inviting object, a table where people can talk, visit, even reach across and shake hands.
“Indeed, think of this sculpture as a table and bring differences to it. Think of this piece as a fable, then bring even more differences to it,” Ed McCullough said.
McCullough has major sculptures throughout the Midwest. Most notably, "Vision," a stainless steel sculpture, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Meridian VII at the entrance to the Chicago Police Headquarters Building and Meridian VI, a stainless steel outdoor sculpture at the entrance to the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Illinois.
"La Favola" was a gift from Dr. Terry Travis and Carol Travis.
Ed McCullough is an American artist, born in 1934.
