This is the original plan behind my current sculpture project. It has turned out that the original plan was not as easy to accomplish and alot of additions and editing had to take place, although this was the case this didn’t hinder the original concept.
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.
Alexander Calder has created a mobile sculpture, this is using movement by means of the air flow only, but still counts as a kinetic sculpture. Calder has used junk items which looks like they have been found from the beach to create the fish, this brings in again a connotation of waste and the effect of this on the environment, or in this case the effect on marine life. I like how these items are sourced directly from the beach, i feel this brings greater impact on its concept.
(Right Image)
Alexander Calder, American, b. Lawnton, Pennsylvania, 1898–1976
Painted metal rod, wire, metal, plastic, wood, glass and ceramic fragments, 16 1/4 x 48 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (41.3 x 122.2 x 11.4 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number: 66.785
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, American Abstraction (Mid-Century)
Bill Woodrow is an artist who uses Materials found in dumps, used car lots and scrap yards. He puts these items together to create sculptures. He uses inanimate found objects, very similarly to my work and puts them together in such a way to create sculptures with form, some of animals some of compiled objects. This is relevant as he shows what can be done with objects and how they can be put together to create art. In some of his works he has used the same material over and over to create something very large.
Woodrow has also created a bird out of found objects in a similar fashion to my own. Woodrow chose to explore a recurring theme in his work – the destruction of the planet and the insistent strength of nature over man, This subject can be seen in my own works.
Looking back at where i started and where i am now has told me and showed me how my work as evolved from with a form, something built up, tactile and still to something formless and kinetic.
In my earlier work, before i had researched the artists for my dissertation i wouldn’t have considered movement into my own work. Using Tinguely, Landy and Leonardo Da Vinci as research subjects as taught me to be more expressive and think outside the box, By combining the three main artists and taking away what i have learnt i am able to expand on that knowledge and propose my own ideas and have turned them into kinetic sculpture.
I began with form over function using found or obtainable objects, then created a sculpture that was based on movement and working out how random items and wheels could correspond to each other, and i am now beginning to merge both of those concepts together.
I propose to expand on what i am currently doing and create a larger adaption consisting of kinetic sculptures, with something of form, like an animal or people.
