Above we see ‘Balance’, a kinetic sculpture commissioned by the Belasting & Douane Museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This kinetic sculpture consists of two curtains undulating out of phase.
The Magic Wave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR1gYjSPa98
The Magic Wave was presented at the Swiss ‘Technorama’ in Winterthur. It has a light blue aluminum grid suspended by 256 cables. Its motion is an addition of four variable-amplitude waves: two structured as single-wavelength, and two as double-wavelength. And there is an overall height mechanism that raises and lowers the entire wave simultaneously.
The overhead mechanics contain 3’000 pulleys, 5 kilometers of steel cable, and 9 motors. Reuben Margolin considers the Magic Wave as a collaboration between himself and the staff at Technorama (Jürg Neuenschwander, Remo Besio, Thorsten-D. Künnemann and Heinz Ammann), who built it in their basement workshop, and figured out lots of the details down to the thousandth of a millimeter, and beautifully crafted.
Nebula (Video by Nikki Zhang and Chris Potter) :
Nebula is four feet in diameter. Around 8’000 beads have been used. Margolin installed Nebula, a kinetic art work with 4,500 amber crystals, in the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The piece has been described as “perhaps the most ambitious kinetic sculpture ever commissioned.”
The Round Wave (Video by Michele Orlando) :
Margolin uses salvaged wood, metal, cardboard, and other recycled materials to create this massive mechanical wave sculptures. Some of his pieces have their own ‘personality’ and seem to be alive even!
More of Reuben Margolin’s fantastic organic sculptures can be enjoyed on his site below.
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The details and the whole are ONE!
Pura Vida…
wow… the rest are details… cheers Dierkiji
Yep, the most important ‘thing about the things’ gets overlooked quite often…
now i know why you ask what do you feel about that and it hit me when i realized that nobody else ever asks.
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