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A George Rickey sculpture at Century Center in downtown South Bend: 'Triple L Excentric: Gyratory Gyratory.' Image courtesy Notre Dame University.

George Rickey sculpture installed in his native South Bend

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

A George Rickey sculpture at Century Center in downtown South Bend: 'Triple L Excentric: Gyratory Gyratory.' Image courtesy Notre Dame University.
A George Rickey sculpture at Century Center in downtown South Bend: ‘Triple L Excentric: Gyratory Gyratory.’ Image courtesy Notre Dame University.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – A sculpture by internationally renowned kinetic sculptor George Rickey has been installed in his native South Bend.

The South Bend Tribune reports a piece made by the late sculptor was installed Friday in downtown South Bend. Rickey created Space Churn with Octagon in 1971, but it has not been on public display since 1975.

Rickey’s work was featured South Bend in 2009 when five of his works were placed downtown. Rickey was a central figure in the artistic movement known as Constructivism. He made abstract steel mobiles that are moved by gravity or air currents.

He was born in 1907 in South Bend to a father who was a Singer Sewing Machine Co. executive. He moved to Scotland in 1913. Rickey died in 2002 at the age of 95.

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A George Rickey sculpture at Century Center in downtown South Bend: 'Triple L Excentric: Gyratory Gyratory.' Image courtesy Notre Dame University.
A George Rickey sculpture at Century Center in downtown South Bend: ‘Triple L Excentric: Gyratory Gyratory.’ Image courtesy Notre Dame University.