‘Mandala’ by Vincent Ganivet. Made out of dust and remains.
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Tag Archives: mechanical sculpture
Michael Kontopoulis
‘Machines that Almost Fall Over’ (2008) by Michael Kontopoulos.
A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse.
Germaine Kruip
Spotted today in De Paviljoens, Almere:
‘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.
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:
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
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.
