Amazing Wind-Powered Sculptures
The title of this video, “A Modern-Day DaVinci Genius” is perhaps hyperbole, but the wind-powered sculptures by the engineer/artist Theo Jansen are incredible. You can see several of them featured in the videos below:
Kinetic art is sculpture that contains moving parts. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer’s hand. The term kinetic sculpture refers to a class of art made primarily from the late 1950s through 1960s. Kinetic art was first recorded by the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner in their Realist Manifesto issued as part of a manifesto of constructivism in 1920 in Moscow. “Bicycle Wheel,” of 1913, by Marcel Duchamp, is said to be the first kinetic sculpture.–Source Wikipedia
“The walls between Engineering and Art exist only in our minds.“–Theo Jansen.
If you haven’t come across Kinetic art before, then a simple Google search will reveal numerous links, resources and examples.
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Horrorwood
The way these things move is really quite uncanny. I find that there is also a certain sad quality to the whole feel of these films - maybe because of the locations. Genius none-the-less.
Jun 21st, 2007
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