David Letellier : ‘Versus’ Kinetic Sculptures (Installation)

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Versus is a sound installation consisting of two kinetic sculptures placed face to face.

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Each sculpture is made of 12 triangular panels, hinged and powered by six linear actuators, controlled by a specific program. At the centre, a loudspeaker and a microphone plays and record sounds. At regular intervals, each sculpture produces a sound, simultaneously recorded and analyzed by the opposite sculpture, which then moves according to the frequencies of this sound. Like a feedback loop, it then plays back the recorded sound, with the errors and disturbances caused by the reverberating space and the visitors. By intervening in this conversation, the viewer becomes an actor, as he degrades the communication by his presence and the noises he produces. As the panels move back and forth at a pace determined by the environmental sound, they create a non-immediate interaction, where the imperfections of reproduction are becoming creative elements. The original sound is continuously transformed, and becomes something entirely new and unpredictable. The memory of past events goes momentarily, until it’s reproduced, degraded, and then forgotten, replaced by the present.

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David Letellier : Vimeo

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Pe Lang : ‘Moving Objects’ Series (Kinetic Art)

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Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
Actuators, cables, silikon
Size: 200 x 108 cm
Year: 2011

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Dienstgebäude, Zürich, Switzerland
motor, 1’836 spheres (9,5mmø)
Size: 140 x 100 cm
Year: 2010

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Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
Actuators, cables, silikon
Size: 100 x 56 cm
Year: 2011

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Pe Lang’s poetic and elegant hand built sculptures combine mechanized systems with new materials to mandate and manifest a different approach to kinetic movement. Lang realizes performances and creates installations by ingeniously assembling magnetic, electrical and mechanical devices and even inventing new devices and prototypes. The resulting works are both visually appealing, because of their elegant and minimal kinetic qualities, but also fascinating for their acoustic features. If chance plays an important role in his works, the artist playfully manages to balance between order and chaos by controlling the forces involved in his compositions: the precision of the mechanical devices and the confusion resulted from the collision of the various elements. (Ext : Introduction – Text by Boris Magrini)

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Pe Lang : Website

Pe Lang : Vimeo

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Willem van Weeghel : “Dynamic Structure 1586″ (Kinetic Art)

Kinetic object (triptych)
36 independently moving tubes
computer controlled (integrated)
Dimensions 698 x 246 cm

“Movement is the central means of expression in my work. The changing structures that appear move in the transitional area between chaos and order, between variability and uniformity, between volatility and consistency. As a reconciliation of opposites.

My kinetic objects are characterised by a serial use of elements of which the form is generally of less importance than the movement that they make. Identical elements with identical movement options together form constantly changing structures. Like dancers executing a complex choreography. The forms that I use only function as the instruments to make the movement visible and, therefore, these are as simple as possible. The coordinated movement creates complexity.

The movements of the objects are usually controlled by an integrated computer system, which is not visible for the spectator. I make use of advanced technology, but this is not visible and it is only instrumental. Instrumental in an attempt to enable the constant movement in which structures appear and then disappear again in order to visualise the passage of time.” Willem van Weeghel

Willem van Weeghel : Website

Willem van Weeghel : Vimeo