Kinetica artists featured at the new ‘World of Illusion’ Museum. Dublin
A new large scale commission for Ivan Black
Ivan Black uses the repetition of simple forms to build complex kinetic structures. The introduction of kinetics, create travelling waves which spiral through the structures, causing shifts in alignment of the component parts. Each sculpture is a section of a potentially continuous sequence, confined only by the limitations of the materials.
Gregory Barsamian’s three-dimensional zoetropic sculptures probe into some of the fundamental dilemmas of human existence while celebrating the potency of dreams. Employing the 19th-century theory of the persistence of vision, Barsamian creates kinetic sculptural pieces that meld and metamorphose familiar objects in unexpected ways to suggest cinematic alternative realities. Using rotating mechanical armatures and synchronized strobe lights, Barsamian’s pieces transform simple animation into a boldly three-dimensional sculptural illusion – one that is also a kind of magical realism. Barsamian cleverly combines art and science to explore the human subconscious. Through his mastery in working with surreal imagery, Barsamian allows the viewer to briefly enter into an unconscious world, He calls this the “waking dream state.”
The two neon heads in a state of perpetual absorption and interrelationship generate the Caduceus symbol. Originally representative of the messenger of the Earth Mother some 6000 years ago, the Caduceus has since become a sign of friendship, peace and negotiation and symbol for alchemy and transformative powers linking Heaven and Earth with messages from the Gods carried by the staff of Hermes.
More recently Clendenon discovered a centuries-old library in India where he found diagrams of mercury vortex engines, the Caduceus he believed was an ancient symbol of electromagnetic flight and cosmic energy.
Roseline de Thelin’s Columba is named after the small, faint star constellation Columba Noachi (Latin for Noah’s Dove) and symbolizes our growing consciousness. Continuing the series of Homos Luminosos (Latin for Luminous Humans), this new member of the family is a child, a young girl sitting in a constellation of quartz crystal stars. Ethereal, transparent and illuminating, she glows, as a metaphor of the veil that divides life and the spirit realm. Her ghostly, veiled silhouette appears shining and haunting in the dark, escaping into oblivion.
Seated Child is evocative of ‘God’s waiting room’ in the spiritual dimension, waiting in limbo, visitors often experience a divine transcendence entering through the door of perception.
Seated Child (Columba) plays with brain perception. It is made of edged optic fibres, an original technique developed by the artist to create 3D forms out of light points.
Roseline de Thelin is a Kinetica Museum Oxygen artist member.