MADRID The Dutchman Theo Jansen has spent 20 years experimenting with tubes and plastic bottles with creating “beach beasts” increasingly “autonomous” and versatile, a “staggering creatures “shown for the first time together in Spain in an exhibition in Madrid.
The exhibition” biological evolution “of the” creatures “of Jansen (1948) across 13 of its 40″ Strandbeest “or “beach beasts”, from the first creation to the most advanced, which soon will add a new one, “Animaris Duabus Caudis”.
The artist, a physicist by training, experience with these frames , like giant skeletons of animals or insects, on the beaches of Holland, where traction wings, connected by a crankshaft, provide autonomous movements artifacts.
fusion of art and engineering, his kinetic sculptures , who they became world famous because of its appearance in 2007 in a car commercial, move through complex structures composed of tubes that are used as insulation in electrical, durable and light installations, and plastic bottles.
Jansen develops every year a new being, inheriting the virtues of previous and perfected and improved. A ready time, experiencing the movement with him on the beaches near his studio during the summer, leaving a long year “living” in the open and then returns to his workshop and become “fossil”.
Your beasts, which always include in the name the word “Animaris” occupy seven evolutionary periods, depending on what they have been “able” to do and the Madrid exhibition includes examples of all.
The first method used to connect the pipes was the tape and hence that stage (1990-1991) is “Gluton”.
“Animaris Vulgaris”, his first creature, consisting of 28 legs and incorporated a crank that allowed the movement but the connections were constantly breaking.
He was followed by “Chorda”, or rope (1991-1993), and thus was born “Animaris Currens Vulgaris”, the first animal could move and stand safely.
The next breakthrough was the use of a computer program to calculate the shape, position and ideal ratio of legs.
“Caldum” or was warming (1993-1994) shone through the use of heat guns for assembly, “Animaris Currens Ventosa” and “Animaris Sabulosa”.
The warm period, “Tepideem” (1994 -1997), arises because it is clear that if the assemblies are made with very hot, eventually became fragile, while those “beasts” can only be set hanging from the ceiling.
softened use gun and introduced elements in the legs that allow the creatures more strength and stability.
“Lignatum” (1997-2001) is “treason” to the plastic tubes and start using pallets for build “Animaris Lignatus Rhinoceros”.
Between 2001 and 2006 he developed the “Vaporum”, which incorporates their loved plastic bottles that act as stomach, and store compressed air after being inflated wind, an alternative source of energy that originates “Animaris Vermiculus”
Today, developed since 2006, is “Cerebrum”, which are already equipped with an antenna and a pedometer that they avoids obstacles or approaching the water too.
The creatures can be seen in the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid until January 17 and at that time a parallel educational program will be developed.
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