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thematic album:
Stefano Mirtis
facebook wall
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I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am
showing you a world, the likes of which only
I can see.

~ Dziga Vertov
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Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped
Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
1915/1923
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La
marie mise nu par ses clibataires, mme),
most often called The Large Glass, is an artwork
by Marcel Duchamp.
Duchamp carefully created "The Bride Stripped
Bare by Her Bachelors, Even", working on the piece
from 1915 to 1923. He executed the work on two
panes of glass with materials such as lead foil, fuse
wire, and dust. It combines chance procedures,
plotted perspective studies, and laborious
craftsmanship.
Duchamp's ideas for the Glass began in 1913, and
he made numerous notes and studies, as well as
preliminary works for the piece. The notes reflect
the creation of unique rules of physics,
and myth which describes the work. He published
the notes and studies as The Green Box in 1934.
The notes describe that his "hilarious picture" is
intended to depict the erratic encounter between
the "Bride," in the upper panel, and her nine
"Bachelors" gathered timidly below in an
abundance of mysterious mechanical apparatus in
the lower panel.
The Large Glass was exhibited in 1926 at the
Brooklyn Museum before it was accidentally
broken and carefully repaired by Duchamp. It is
now part of the permanent collection at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Two nice things:
a) when they break the piece, Duchamp accepts
the fact and from that moment a new conceptual
piece is generated (we don't have anymore the
lean glass, but the broken one).
b) since the piece is made out of glass, you can't
reproduce properly it. you need always to see the
piece into the space.
Beniamino Servino, SERVeN
ANALOGIQUE
2011
Beniamino Servino, Obus viadotto
2008
Beniamino Servino, Obus acquascivoli
2008
Jean Tinguely, Cyclograveur
1960
Jean Tinguely, Mta-Matic #10
1959
Jean Tinguely, Mta-Herbin
1954
Jean Tinguely, Hippopotamus
1991
-detail-
Jean Tinguely, Mta-Herbin
1954
Jean Tinguely, Le Cyclop
1970
Matthias Gommel, Martina Haitz,
Jan Zappe, Bios [Bible] (aka: Der
Bibelschreiber)
2009
The installation bios [bible] consists of an
industrial robot, which writes down the bible on
rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic
lines with high precision. Like a monk in the
scriptorium it creates step by step the text.
Starting with the old testament and the books of
Moses bios [bible] produces within seven month
continuously the whole book. All 66 books of the
bible are written on rolls and then retained and
presented in the library of the installation.
-http://www.robotlab.de/-
bios [bible] is focussing on the questions of faith
and technical progress. The installation correlates
two cultural systems which are fundamental for
societies today religion and scientific
rationalism. In this contexts scripture has all times
an elementary function, as holy scripture or as
formal writing of knowledge.
In computer technology basic input output
system (bios) designates the module which
basicaly coordinates the interchange between
hard- and software. Therefore it contains the
indispensable code, the essential program writing,
on which every further program can be
established.
Bibelschreiber)
2009
Bibelschreiber)
2009
Bibelschreiber)
2009
Bibelschreiber)
2009
William Kentridge, Return
2008
-from the video explanation the concept behind
the video work (part of: REPEAT from the
Beginning / Da Capo)-
2008
2008
2008
Alexander Calder, Mobile
ca. 1932
Alexander Calder, Vertical
Constellation with Bomb
1943
Alexander Calder, Goldfish Bowl
1929
Alexander Calder, Steel Fish
1934
Alexander Calder, Enseign
de Lunettes
1976
Alexander Calder, Untitled
1942
Alexander Calder, S-Shaped Vine
1946
Bruno Munari, Useless Machine
1948
Bruno Munari, Macchina inutile
a giostra (Carousel-Shaped Useless
Machine)
1953
1934
first version in 1945, re-edited in 1980
1945
1952
1947
-steel wire-
Bruno Munari, Macchina inutile in
metallo colorato (Useless Machine
in Colored Metal)
1949
1934
first edition in 1934, re-edited in 1983
for Max Bill
1946
as a tripod
1950's
Bruno Munari, Useless Machines
as a tripod
1935/1954
1935/1954
Made out of balsa wood, cardboard and thread.
Some were made of flexible wire and wooden
rods. The components were always tied wogether
with thread. The wire gave a special springiness to
the wooden rods.
1935/1954
1935/1954

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