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Willem van Wiegel. Kinetic Sculpture
Exhibition January 21 − May 15, 2022
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art invites you to visit the exhibition "Willem van Wiegel. Kinetic Sculpture".
The exhibition introduces the work of Dutch artist Willem van Wiegel, known for his works in the genre of kinetic art: mobile constructions, visualizing the passage of time, constantly changing patterns, immersive sculpture.
Each of the author's monochrome compositions is a complex mobile structure, modeled with the help of a computer and resembling a set of geometric figures on the background of a large framed canvas. The elements, most often made of metal, are connected to a mechanism located on the other side of the work. It is this mechanism that drives the figures in a continuous, synchronized movement, producing a constant change of fanciful patterns. Essentially abstract, these images force us to think about the nature of positive and negative spaces and the relationship between them-in this case between the moving objects and the surrounding contrasting field as an element of artistic composition.
Kinetic art originated in the early twentieth century. It is exemplified by the sculptures of Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandra Rodchenko and - perhaps the most famous example - Alexander Calder. Willem van Wiegel takes kinetic art to a qualitatively new level: he uses in his works technologies previously inaccessible to artists - integrated computer mechanisms hidden from the observer. By the artist's own admission, the electronic components are hidden intentionally: they are nothing more than a means of achieving the true goal - the visualization of the passage of time.
The artist's works hypnotize the viewer by demanding an unhurried and attentive gaze: in front of each of them one wishes to linger to examine the shifting patterns in all their incredible diversity. In addition to the artist's characteristic two-dimensional works, the Erarta Museum will also present the result of a creative collaboration - a large-scale immersive sculpture created by Willem van Wiegel especially for this exhibition. Moving freely in the exhibition space among the mobile structures resembling trees, viewers will be able to feel themselves an organic part of the artist's whimsical creative world.
Prepared according to the materials of the official website Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition introduces the work of Dutch artist Willem van Wiegel, known for his works in the genre of kinetic art: mobile constructions, visualizing the passage of time, constantly changing patterns, immersive sculpture.
Each of the author's monochrome compositions is a complex mobile structure, modeled with the help of a computer and resembling a set of geometric figures on the background of a large framed canvas. The elements, most often made of metal, are connected to a mechanism located on the other side of the work. It is this mechanism that drives the figures in a continuous, synchronized movement, producing a constant change of fanciful patterns. Essentially abstract, these images force us to think about the nature of positive and negative spaces and the relationship between them-in this case between the moving objects and the surrounding contrasting field as an element of artistic composition.
Kinetic art originated in the early twentieth century. It is exemplified by the sculptures of Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandra Rodchenko and - perhaps the most famous example - Alexander Calder. Willem van Wiegel takes kinetic art to a qualitatively new level: he uses in his works technologies previously inaccessible to artists - integrated computer mechanisms hidden from the observer. By the artist's own admission, the electronic components are hidden intentionally: they are nothing more than a means of achieving the true goal - the visualization of the passage of time.
The artist's works hypnotize the viewer by demanding an unhurried and attentive gaze: in front of each of them one wishes to linger to examine the shifting patterns in all their incredible diversity. In addition to the artist's characteristic two-dimensional works, the Erarta Museum will also present the result of a creative collaboration - a large-scale immersive sculpture created by Willem van Wiegel especially for this exhibition. Moving freely in the exhibition space among the mobile structures resembling trees, viewers will be able to feel themselves an organic part of the artist's whimsical creative world.
Prepared according to the materials of the official website Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art.
