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Kinetic art in last years is at the peak of popularity, because masters who have mastered light and movement manage to achieve a stunning effect - to overcome the static nature of sculpture. In our review - 8 of the most original examples how art objects come to life.

1.Fantastic mechanism from the artist Lime Young

Kinetic sculpture by South Korean artist Laimi Yang

Lime Young is a true virtuoso. The master manages to construct the most complex mechanisms from circuit boards, microprocessors, servos and other mechanical devices. When put into action, his kinetic sculptures have a magnetic effect on viewers, because it is simply impossible for the average person to solve the mystery of the mechanism.

2.Silhouettes of cars from metal spheres

Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum

The kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum appeared several years ago, but still causes delight. 714 metal spheres fold into the shape of car models different years release.

3. Wing Flap by Bob Potts

Kinetic sculpture of Bob Potts

70-year-old sculptor Bob Potts creates minimalist, but no less impressive works. His kinetic sculptures imitate the flapping of a bird's wings or the movement of an oar while rowing. It’s amazing how the master manages to convey the trajectory of movement so accurately.

4. "Dancing" sculptures by Anthony Howe

Kinetic sculpture by Anthony Howe

Anthony Howe works with a rough material - steel reinforcement, but creates surprisingly harmonious kinetic sculptures. In calm weather they look elegant and sophisticated, and with the first breath of wind they begin their fancy dance.

5. "Mechanical Fish" by art group ArtMechanicus

Kinetic sculpture from the art group ArtMechanicus

Thanks to the efforts of the art group ArtMechanicus, more than one “mechanical fish” has been born. The collection of Moscow masters includes “Fish-House”, reminiscent of Noah’s Ark, “Fish-Knight”, personifying a lonely horseman, “Nut Fish”, symbolizing the desire for beauty, and “Fish-ram” - an allegory of the struggle between living and inanimate principles.

6. Wooden Wonders by David Roy

David Roy gives his kinetic sculptures touching and tender names - “Fiesta”, “ Summer rain", "Solar Dance", "Serenade", "Zephyr". Wooden creations are set in motion by the wind and immediately become light and graceful.

Modern artists and sculptors have long gone beyond the generally accepted concept of “ fine art" They became real inventors and as a result created a separate artistic direction, called “kinetic art”. Kineticism is based on a simple idea: under the influence of wind, light and movement, you can create a stunning artistic object that literally “comes to life” before the eyes of the audience. Our selection contains the most impressive examples of kinetic sculptures created by Sovriska figures.

THE INHABITANTS OF THE SANDY BEACHES BY THEO JANSEN

Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates truly unique art objects that are driven by gusts of wind. Fantastic creatures gigantic sizes roam freely around sandy beaches, which brings complete delight and amazement to the spellbound audience. These characters seem to have stepped out of the pages of post-apocalyptic novels and now live among people.

Back in the 90s, Jansen created a computer program with which he was able to calculate the evolution of many creatures that were in the struggle for survival. Seriously fascinated by this matter, he decided to transfer his developments from the computer screen to real life. To create the giant inhabitants of the sandy coasts, the artist uses plastic tubes, which he buys for 10 cents per meter. Cable ties, tape, plastic bottles and nylon threads are used. The result is very light and inexpensive kinetic sculptures, vaguely reminiscent of bizarre insects, each of which contains an average of 375 tubes.

SPACE ART OBJECTS ANTHONY HOWE

Contemporary art closely interacts with information technology, and vivid proof of this is the work of the American sculptor Anthony Howe. It is with the help of a computer that the master has been creating autonomous kinetic sculptures for the past 17 years. Huge art objects react to such natural phenomena like light and wind.

The author of the “space” sculptures admits that he draws inspiration from astronomical and microbiological models. Howe primarily uses fiberglass and stainless steel in his work. The sculptor achieves three-dimensional harmony by creating symmetrical and asymmetrical balance between multiple axes. Looking at these unique creations, it really seems that they were not created by man at all, but rather they came to us from outer space.

A TOUCHING LOVE STORY FROM Tamara KVESITADZE

Another stunning sculpture called “Man and Woman” is located in Batumi (Georgia). The author of this creation is Georgian sculptor Tamara Kvesitadze. Every evening at 19.00 an 8-meter steel composition begins to move, playing out a real love drama. The fact is that the sculpture depicts the Muslim Azerbaijani Ali and the Georgian princess Nino from famous novel, which was supposedly written by Kurban Said in 1937.

In the book, the action takes place in the Caucasus against the backdrop of the First World War. The novel "Ali and Nino" raises the most difficult questions related to the search for ways to reconcile Islam and Christianity, West and East, men and women. In the evening, at the most romantic time, the statues begin to move towards each other, unite in a touching embrace for a short time, and then part. The performance lasts only 10 minutes, but in this short period of time the sculpture manages to tell an incredible story. touching story love that leaves no spectator indifferent.

HYPNOTIC MECHANISMS OF BOB POTTS

Bob Potts is a painter and sculptor from San Francisco. He creates amazing kinetic sculptures that imitate smooth movements fish and insects, the flapping of bird wings, the movements of boat oars. In the process of working on his art objects, the artist uses a variety of parts: chains, levers, gears and connecting rods. It is with their help that he creates stunning minimalist sculptures, focused only on movement.

For his work, the sculptor (and also a professional carpenter) uses mainly stainless steel, brass, aluminum, copper, bronze and wood. To begin with, he creates a prototype of the future sculpture from wood, calculates the dimensions and geometric proportions. The master creates each of his creations slowly, carefully calculating every detail. Often the original is very different from its prototype.

MAGIC RAIN FROM ART+COM

The kinetic sculpture, located in the first terminal of Singapore's Changi Airport (by the way, has been repeatedly voted the best airport in the world), consists of 608 elements imitating raindrops that seem to be frozen in the air. Thanks to the operation of special motors built into the ceiling, the drops are set in motion every 15 minutes and demonstrate something like a rain dance - a truly impressive spectacle.

The art object was created by the Berlin company ART+COM. The drops are made of lightweight aluminum with a copper coating. A similar large-scale sculpture from ART+COM was presented at the Munich BMW Museum in 2008. It consisted of 714 metal spheres suspended on the thinnest steel wires 0.2 mm thick. The wires are almost impossible to see, so it feels like the “drops” are floating in the air. By the way, the studio ART+COM received for this work highest award One Show Design Awards - the Oscars of the advertising industry.

BIOLOGICAL FORMS OF LIFE TSOYA URAM

Seoul-based artist Choi Uram creates interesting kinetic sculptures that mimic natural life forms. To produce his works, the master uses various types of metals, gearboxes, motors, as well as processors and circuit boards that set the sculptures in motion. Each exhibit is equipped with a very complex mechanism, and therefore, before exhibitions, Tsoi has to explain in detail to the organizers how to adjust the work of the sculpture if it suddenly loses its rhythm.

Over time, parts wear out to such an extent that the object becomes unusable. Then Tsoi dismantles the sculpture to use the remaining parts to create his new masterpiece.

CLASSICS IS A FLEXIBLE CONCEPT: AMAZING SCULPTURES BY LI HUNBO

At first glance, the works of the Chinese artist and sculptor Li Hongbo may seem ordinary and even mediocre, but once you touch the sculpture, not a trace will remain of classical art. What appeared to be a monolithic sculpture made of plaster or marble turns out to be a stack of sheets of paper. Tens of thousands of pages glued together in a special way, V original form they look like ordinary statues. Metamorphoses begin if you pull part of the sculpture up or move it to the side.

Lee uses ancient way paper gluing, which is widely used in China for the manufacture of decorative elements and children's toys. Lee found original version use of this technology: the sculptor works with various types paper, gluing the sheets together along lines that form a pattern reminiscent of a honeycomb. Each creation of Li Hongbo is the fruit of painstaking self made which can last for several months. For example, for a human-sized figure, the artist used about 20 thousand paper sheets.

Anthony Howe (born 1954 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor who creates autonomous kinetic sculptures driven by wind power.

Having received art education at Cornell University and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Howe began his creative career in 1979-1985, as an artist. He painted pastoral landscapes in a house he built himself on a remote mountain peak in New Hampshire. His paintings have been exhibited at Gallery on the Green in Lexington, Massachusetts.

In 1985, Anthony Howe moved to New York and began making kinetic sculptures. In 1994, he moved to Orcas Island in the San Juan Archipelago (Washington State), where he again built a house and opened his own gallery. Howe's work became widely known in the late 1990s.

“For the last 17 years I have been creating autonomous kinetic sculptures that interact with wind and light environment. I'm trying to create objects, appearance which resemble low-tech sci-fi equipment, astronomical or microbiological models. The material used for the sculptures is primarily stainless steel, driven by forged curved elements or flat disks covered with fiberglass. Multi-shaft, carefully balanced shapes, both symmetrical and asymmetrical, create a moving, soothing three-dimensional image of harmony. An outboard gear motor is mounted inside the sculptures.”, says Anthony Howe.

Howe starts with digital modeling using software Rhinoceros 3D, then the steel elements of the sculptures are made using plasma cutting and assembled using traditional metal working techniques.

© Anthony Howe, 2013. OCTO 3 . Stainless steel. 7.6 m high x 9.1 m wide x 9.1 m deep. 3200 kg. 16 connected blades rotating on a circular shaft. Withstands wind speeds of 90 mph. Provided various options night illumination. Sold to Dubai, UAE.

Even the lightest breeze can set dozens of rotating parts of the sculptures in motion. Howe says he takes great care to test his sculptures for wind resistance. One way is to mount the sculpture on your Ford F-150 and then drive it down the freeway.

“I was tired of everything motionless in my visual world» , explains Howe, who considers motionless sculptures to be lifeless.

Harmony, beauty and justice are what everyone can bring to this world. But some of us are able to change it dramatically and in a big way. Moreover, this does not require suitcases of money, special connections in the right ministry or a large bribe official. Now you will see inventions that at first glance are very simple and may even seem useless to some, but who knows, perhaps in the future they will radically change our world. After all, they are already helping millions. So, let's go.

Ice stupas against drought “Towers of ice” help the inhabitants of the Himalayas adapt to climate change. They are created by Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk. He laid a siphon pipeline from a mountain river to one of the villages. Erupting under pressure from a vertical pipe, like a geyser, the water freezes, forming a 20-meter ice tower, reminiscent of a Buddhist sanctuary - a stupa. In the spring, such a “stupa” melts, irrigating the dry soil. The system is easily scalable, and then the engineer laid pipelines for another 50 towers. Well, at the end of 2016, Sonam was invited to Switzerland to create an ice stupa. The project was successfully implemented and today the company is engaged in the widespread construction of ice towers around the world.

Iron fish - against anemia A Cambodian company has produced a fish that can fight iron deficiency, which, due to poor nutrition, occurs in 3.5 billion people. It would seem a useless invention - the fish are made in Cambodia from scrap metal, which is tested for quality. When cooked, it releases iron, which then enters the body. Basically, this iron deficiency is caused by a poor diet that does not include red meat and vegetables. And this is especially true for Cambodia, since more than half the population lives on less than $2 a day. Maybe for the residents of Russia we could also invent some kind of fish, but not iron fish, but, for example, with vitamin D? Indeed, according to the conclusion of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety, 80% of Russians have an acute shortage of this important element.

Now let's move on to digital technologies. (Sort it out) Raspberry Pi - a computer for the poorest For many poor people main problem When buying a computer, the price is relatively high, but with the advent of this computer for the poorest, this problem ceases to be relevant.

This extremely cheap computer was created by British programmer David Braben. The device is a small board the size of a bank card. You can connect external devices to it, including network cable. The Raspberry Pi has a 700 MHz processor and flash-based persistent memory. The cost of such a computer is 25 and 35 US dollars, depending on the modification.

Here's another gadget: Kilgoris Project - an e-book instead of textbooks. E-books for students from poor countries are cheaper than $100 tablets, and most importantly, one such e-book can store all the textbooks in all subjects for all years of study. And efficiency makes it possible to combat chronic shortages of electricity.

Now about football: Home power plant in a soccer ball A group of students came up with a way for even children to generate electricity for their own needs. They created a soccer ball that generates energy while playing. An hour of playing football can provide a person with light for the evening. Moreover, this device can also charge mobile devices- telephones, e-books, tablet computers.

Convenient Water Carrier In rural areas, you often have to walk many miles to get water. It's tedious and takes a lot of time. A “water wheel” can solve this problem. It has a capacity of 45 liters and pushing the wheel requires much less effort. It is also durable enough to be used even on rough terrain. Thanks to its large capacity and ease of use, it saves a lot of time and energy. It would seem that it is so simple that there is no point in talking about it. But how many thousands of poor people has this actually made life easier?

Kinetic sculpture is a special direction in contemporary art, based on the effect of movement of the entire art object or its individual elements. Masters working in this genre managed to destroy the myth that real sculptural images must be static. Their creations are filled with movement and life. They attract attention, fascinate and make a person think about the impermanence of all things and phenomena surrounding him in this world.

Sculptures by Limey Young

Lime Young - contemporary artist from South Korea, who creates unusual sculptures of complex shapes using microprocessors, circuit boards, stainless steel parts and other materials unusual for works of art. Set in motion by special mechanisms, his installations resemble unimaginable living creatures and have a truly magical effect on viewers. Understand how they work to the common man not possible. But this is not necessary, because any kinetic sculpture by Young is created in order to amaze the audience.

Bob Potts creations

The famous American sculptor Bob Potts creates minimalist installations that imitate the flapping of bird wings, the movement of oars in a boat, etc. His sculptures are made of lightweight materials and are not burdened with unnecessary details, but this does not prevent them from bringing viewers into indescribable delight. Particularly impressive to art fans is the amazing accuracy with which Potts manages to recreate the trajectory of the objects on display.

Woo-Ram Cho and his works of art

The kinetic sculpture has completely captured the imagination of South Korean artist Woo-Ram Cho. All his works have complex designs and mechanisms. Made from various metals, they are supplemented with gearboxes, motors, various boards and microprocessors, thanks to which they are set in motion. The Korean's installations resemble strange birds, fish, insects and other creatures unknown modern civilization. To make unusual sculptures look more realistic, the master demonstrates them accompanied by light and sound effects.

Moving compositions by Anthony Howe

American Anthony Howe has been creating three-dimensional abstract compositions from light stainless steel for more than 25 years, set in motion by the slightest breath of breeze. All the author’s creations consist of several dozen mobile elements and resemble unimaginable astronomical models or from the future. Some of Anthony Howe's kinetic sculptures stand firmly on the ground, but there are also some that are displayed in a suspended state. Driven by the power of the wind, they hypnotize those around them with their every second change in appearance.

Strange animals by Theo Jansen

Kinetic sculptures by Theo Jansen carry the idea of preserving life on the planet. They are made from plastic bottles and pipes, insulating tape, adhesive tape, nylon threads, cardboard and other available materials. Jansen gives his creations the appearance of huge, outlandish animals, which, according to him, feed on wind energy and can move independently. Despite their apparent lightness, they are able to remain stable even under strong gusts of wind. Before creating the next figure, the master uses a computer program to calculate the parameters of the model and only after that assembles it and places it on the beach located near his home in Holland. Today, a whole family of strange animals has gathered there, peacefully neighboring each other.

"Live" installations in Russia

Kinetic sculpture is popular not only in foreign countries. In Russia today there are many artists who are passionate about creating moving installations. Thus, through the efforts of members of the capital’s art group ArtMechanicus, a whole collection of wooden mechanical fish was created. Among their creations there is a House Fish, a Ram Fish, and a Knight Fish. In addition to Muscovites, the creation unusual sculptures Yalta resident Ivan Poddubny is engaged. He makes miniature installations from wood and leather, driven by a spring motor. Poddubny’s works fit perfectly with modern interior and are intended for decorating residential and office premises.