Tag Archives: mechanical sculpture


Jeppe Hein, ‘360 presence’

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Jeppe Hein, ‘360 presence’ (2002)

Interview with Jeppe Hein here.


Vincent Ganivet

manda219122181 (1)‘Mandala’ by Vincent Ganivet. Made out of dust and remains.

More photo’s:

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Ivan Puig

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Ivan Puig, ‘Mandala’ (2006)

Just one more work after ‘le jump’.

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Ariel Schlesinger

Ariel Schlesinger, Bubble Machine, 2006

Ariel Schlesinger, ‘Bubble Machine’, 2006

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Michael Kontopoulis

‘Machines that Almost Fall Over’ (2008) by Michael Kontopoulos.

A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse.


Samuel Zealey

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Samuel Zealey, ‘Inverting suction’, 2008


Germaine Kruip

Spotted today in De Paviljoens, Almere:

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‘I see a landscape’ (2004 – 2009) by Germaine Kruip

In the exhibition ‘Germaine Kruip: Only the title remains’, I think this is one of the few works that I really liked.

There’s a short video of the work below.

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IMMA, Dublin, pt. 2

Also there;

‘Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA Collection‘,

which had a few nice works. Below:

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Robotic chair

 

Robotic chair‘ (2006) by Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea & Matt Donovan.

The Robotic Chair (1984 – 2006) is a generic-looking wooden chair with the capacity to fall apart and put itself back together.


Momoyo Torimitsu

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Momoyo Torimitsu, ‘Miyata Jiro’ (1997)

The Japanese (but New York resident) artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a robot that resembles a businessman. It can crawl the streets of whichever city he places it. Video:

Now, the Japanese have put quite some more time and effort into building weird animatronics/robotics. Click on Read More to see a few more examples.

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Studio OOOMS

This seems like a lot of fun!

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Studio OOOMS, ‘Anti-Gravity Machine’ (200?)


Willem Claassen

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Willem Claassen, ‘Zwarte piste’ (2009)

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Kristof Kintera

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‘It is the beginning!’ (2004) by Kristof Kintera. Watch video.

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Leave-me-alone box

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Arcangelo Sassolino

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Arcangelo Sassolino, Untitled (2008)


Jonathan Schipper

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Jonathan Schipper, ‘Slow inevitable death of American muscle’ (2008)

This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision.  Each car moves about three feet into the other.  The movement is so slow as to be invisible.

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Saadane Afif

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Saadane Afif, ‘Untamable’, lightbox (2008)

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Wim T. Schippers

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Wim T. Schippers, ‘Het is me wat’ (’It’s really something’) (1999)

Golden oldie:
Schippers constructed this sculpture for the lobby of the Ministry of Public health, Well-being and Sports. You can now find it in the lobby of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

By the way:

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Lea Lagasse

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Lea Lagasse, ‘You, you, you, my turn…’ (2008)

This installation uses an invisible hanging system for two dimensional pieces which rotates the work by 90 degrees every ten minutes. The furtive movement plays with the codes of art display. Here an abstract painting from François Morellet receives this soft yet iconoclastic treatment.

Video here.


Yarisal and Kublitz

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Yarisal and Kublitz, ´Corny´ (2009)

A mechanical sculpture by duo Ronnie Yarisal and Katja Kublitz. Watch the piece in action here. (First video on the left)

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