Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/21/2018 - 12/09/2018
12:00 am
Location
Space Gallery
Categories
This exciting installation is the accumulated creativity of a group of young artists fascinated by the mechanical.
The development of contemporary art is intertwined with that of the machine, technically and conceptually. One of its highlights was the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely’s (1925-1991) “Homage to New York,” a 1960 performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It involved a self-constructing and self-destroying mechanism with remains that the audience could take home, alluding to an urban cycle of energy that entails perpetual rebuilding.
The kinetic qualities of gears in motion and motorized moving parts in “Machine Culture” produce both ironic and amusing results, operating with varying degrees of autonomy and control, function and dysfunction, and sometimes generating unpredictable results.
Like Tinguely’s absorption with building up and breaking down, these artists orchestrate and transform bits and pieces of discarded industrial objects and post-consumer technology, reconfiguring them into “objects of fascination.”
Admission is free. Presented in conjunction with the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, a program of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust that features exhibits and performances making their North American, United States or even World debut.
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