Kinetic Art

Does anyone know of artists, books or rescources for kinetic (moving) art, ie mobiles, etc?

I am especially interested in winddriven moving sculptures

Thanks for your thoughts

Your Ralf

Hey, my work has taken me into that direction as well... I found it very difficult to find that information as well, so I have been forced to push in waist high and figure it out myself.

If you have any better luck, I would appreciate it if you sent that info along.

I'm in there with you all. Here are a couple of people to look up: Susumu Shingu (see ARTnews 12/99 p.120) and of course Kenneth Snelson. I'm particularly interested in sculptures that float on water, anyone w/ any references for that?

Hi Blake, I aminterested in the same topic. Please let me know what you find.

Thanks,

Ricardo Fuentes, Sacramento, CA

I answered to the originator by mail. As there seems to be more interest in kinetic works i repeat here. On my page http://www.netti.fi/~laurleva/index.html

are some kinetic works, the tightrope series

- lauri

I had a roomie at RISD in the early '70s, Jacques Baivier a Belgian, who made floating painted steel sculptures. He was a grad student. good luck finding him.

In response to a sculp. assignment I made a drawing machine which was a weather station: the anemometer dragged little cars around which had pens thru them, making wild circles on the paper beneath them. Fun but lame.

MARK DI SUVERO Born in Shanghai, China, in 1933 Mark di Suvero came with his family to San Francisco in 1941. He attended San Francisco City College for a year (1953-54) and then spent a year at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he began his work as a sculptor. In 1956 he earned a B.A. in philosophy from Berkeley. From 1957 to 1960 di Suvero lived and worked in New York.

Kinetic sculpture takes its place at S.A. TX. Museum of Art:
http://mysa.com/pantheon/homebase/hbm%26s/0301b-sama- sculpture.shtml

Mark di Suvero's 1996 'Lore (Spinner)' is shown against a backdrop of Manhattan before it left the artist's studio in Long Island City:

The actual story is here:

Try Tinguely too, who made a lot of kinetic sculptures, some of them fantastically amusing, but I think most of them electrically powered

You could also check out Yves Tinguely, who made a lot of kinetic sculptures, mostly electrical though I think some of them may be wind/water powered