These artworks by Panamarenko show a concern in one way or another with flight. He has used material perhaps not suited to the task of real flight but instead show how it could be possible. Like Da Vinci and how he designed ideas for flight but never created them, Panamarenko has took a physicality and used materials which would make it impossible to fly with. Both artists have proposed an idea but with it the reality of what they have created is something that is completely unattainable.
This brings forward how my creation is completely useless in that it doesn’t do anything but has the applications to do so if i wished.
Image 1:
Blauwe Archeopterix, 1991, énergie solaire
Image 2:
2004
Object, 130 x 100 x 650 cm.
Materials:
Collection: Collection Galerie Jamar, Antwerp.
Image 3:
2000
Object, 165 x 510 x 364 cm.
Materials: motor, aluminium, felt, polycarbonate
Collection: Collection Mianko, Belgium.
