Kinetic Art

Constructivism in Motion

‘K1’ (2017) is dedicated to Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova († 1924) – as if representing the Constructivists of the Russian avant-garde, who dreamed of movement in their Constructivist positions (dreams that came to an abrupt end in 1930 when 'Socialist Realism' became Stalinist art doctrine and the Russian avant-garde remained banned in the Soviet Union until well into the 1980s). 

In my kinetic work, colors are not primarily intended to mark individual pictorial elements only in monochrome, but can also be divided into polychrome, reflecting their dynamic geometry (as well as the background). The kinetically changeable color contexts of forms divided in this way create new form contexts – temporary forms in the eye/mind of the viewer. In highly variable synchronized movements, all positions of individual forms or groups are choreographed in such a way that the artistic potential of constructivist figurations of each art object – without permanent kinetic constraint – is revealed precisely in its unpredictably long pauses.

Kinetic

Constructivist Painting

The flat mechatronic construction for each kinetic object (unique piece) is handmade to the highest quality. The spatio-temporally choreographed forms are flat metal frames covered with canvas, which are controlled acyclically by mechatronic for up to six precision stepper motors.

Central to this is the non-linear programming of the control system integrated into each art object with its choreography, which is neither repetitive nor random in space and time – each individual form in its infinite visual references, to each other and to the picture format.

’K 0.4’, 2014, Painting in Motion

Kinetic-sketch (step-animation)

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