Model, Progress

Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour

“Progress marked the re-emergence of British band Take That after 16 years apart. As a portrait of this popular band’s odyssey, we created a 20-meter-high faceted male figure that rose up from the stage and progressed across the stadium. The ambitious moving sculpture seemed impossible. A number of fabricators declined to take it on, but we refused to be deterred. The size of the figure’s head was determined by the height of a bridge in Hamburg, Germany, the lowest clearance it would encounter on its European tour.”

—Es Devlin

Black-and-white photograph of a crowded stadium with a digital rendition of a lying figure that is partly sitting up superimposed over the center.

Es Devlin, Study, Progress
Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Black-and-white photograph of a crowded stadium with a digital rendition of a standing figure superimposed towards the far right.

Es Devlin, Study, Progress
Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Concert venue full of people facing the stage which features two large-scale figures with extended arms; the larger one is gold and is from the waist-up and the other is white and a full body.

Production photograph, Progress
Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

A large-scale white model of a standing figure with extended arms; white light glows from within the model revealing openings in the structure. A much smaller figure stands next to the model for scale.

Es Devlin, Model, Progress, 3D-printed resin, recreated for exhibition.
Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Drawing of a figure with fully extended arms standing on a circle base with its reflection.

Es Devlin, Study, Progress, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Black-and-white photograph of a crowded stadium with a digital rendition of a lying figure superimposed over the center.

Es Devlin, Study, Progress
Staged 2011, Take That European Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Model, Progress

An Atlas of Es Devlin

Your journey so far

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Studies, Abel’s Mask

Studies, After Hours Til Dawn

Studies, Bangerz

Studies, Come Home Again

Studies, Electric

Studies, Experience + Innocence

Studies, Flag: Burning

Studies, Forest of Us

Studies, Fundamental

Studies, Hello

Studies, Innocence + Experience

Studies, Legend of the Fall

Studies, Memory Palace

Studies, Mirror Maze

Studies, PoemPortraits

Studies, Sphere

Studies, Unknown Soldier

Studies, Witness

Study, Die Tote Stadt

Study, Don Giovanni

Study, Free Your Mind

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Model, Don Giovanni

Model, Fundamental

Model, Howie the Rookie

Model, La Caja Mágica / The Seed

Model, Legend of the Fall

Model, Macbeth

Model, Parsifal

Model, The Hunt

Model, The Lehman Trilogy

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Model, Bangerz

Model, Carmen

Model, Chimerica

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Model, Hello

Model, Innocence + Experience

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Model, London Olympics

Study, Dynamic Cube

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Model, Come Home Again

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Model, Please Feed the Lions

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