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Post date: Mar 16, 2012 9:47:10 PM
About the exhibition: Speed, design and robots. ( 100 years after Futurism) location: High Culture Gallery, Maastricht
Keizer Karelplein 8c
www.highculture.eu
In a society, people have admired the explorers and inventors. With artists like Leonardo da Vinci a cross over between art and inventions became part of the same subject or had a common ground. Through western history we can find artists who were on the lookout for new ways to express themselves and, sometimes by accident, found new technological theories and practical use of machinery. This exhibition broadens the view on this matter with the presentation of renowned and young artists.
With the Futurism, artists were on the lookout to investigate matters like the future, admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the air plane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature. They would explorer the new and unknown, brought to them in a time where there were many things new to them. The exhibition ' speed, design and robots' is a continuation of this search. The artists presented have several things in common like the fascination for the future of the robot and his appearance back in the day ( Miguel Fernandez ) or the superhuman by Max Boufathal. New forms come to live by the 3d laser prints by Peter Jansen, the visitor is surprised by the possibilities we now have regarding new sculptures and it's accessibility. We can redefine movement and speed, make it visible.
We can dream about the format of an aircraft or a new city ( Jan Doms ) or visualize speed in the classic way ( Dick van Wijk, Manfred Hamm) or the new way ( Shinkichi Tajiri).
High culture gallery has presented the renowned artist Japanese / USA artist Shinkichi Tajiri several times. Shinkichi Tajiri was fascinated by the motivations of mankind. He found 3 pillars on which mankind acted: speed, violence and erotism. This exhibition is curated with these themes in mind. But found other themes to be great motivators to mankind today. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the first letters of this exhibition Speed, Design 'n Robots are similar to Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n Roll.
Olivier van Wijk
0031-6-25046662
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