Kinetic Art

Objects

Michael Buckler

2025

Kinetic Art Objects

Kinetic Constructivism

the Painting becomes Stage

Kinetic Constructivism

the Painting becomes Stage

After more than ten years

of visual engineering – artistic

as careful mechanical precision and mechatronic development – digitalized scripts now control

constructivistic figurations, choreographed in space and time:

painting on canvas of mechano-kinetic picture objects

(unique pieces)

Background video: 5 min. excerpt from the choreography of the kinetic art object ‘K0’

Durch immer neue Farbzusammenhänge entstehen gänzlich neue Formzusammenhänge – im Auge / Geist des Betrachters.

Constructivistic Kinetic Paint Object

Choreography in space and time

’K1’, first kinetic art object, 2017

56 x 66 x 4 cm

Choreographische Variation Nr. 2: Kinetik lässt konstruktivistische Variationen in immer neuen Form- und Farbzusammenhängen entstehen

Choreographische Variation Nr. 1: Kinetik lässt konstruktivistische Variationen in immer neuen Form- und Farbzusammenhängen entstehen

Choreographische Variation Nr. 3: Kinetik lässt konstruktivistische Variationen in immer neuen Form- und Farbzusammenhängen entstehen

Choreographische Variation Nr. 4: Kinetik lässt konstruktivistische Variationen in immer neuen Form- und Farbzusammenhängen entstehen

Choreographische Variation Nr. 5: Kinetik lässt konstruktivistische Variationen in immer neuen Form- und Farbzusammenhängen entstehen

Choreographische Variation Nr. 6: Kinetik lässt konstruktivistische Variationen in immer neuen Form- und Farbzusammenhängen entstehen

Here just six ‘stills’ out of infinite figurations of a singular art object.

’K1’ (unique), movie sequences on request

> please see background-video: ‘Unpainted Prototype K0’.mp4

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 Constructivistic 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 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.

Frühe Kinetik-Skizze ’K 0.4’ , Michael Buckler 2014, step-Animation in 8 Bildern

’K 0.4’, 2014, Painting in Motion

Kinetic-sketch (step-animation)

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