Experiencing kinetic art is as easy as turning on a lightbulb at the Dallas Museum of Art’s immersive exhibition, Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism, now on view through July 16. Patrons enter the exhibition by walking through Brazilian artist Valeska Soares’ 2006 installation of Vagalume (Firefly), a series of overhead lightbulbs patrons can turn on and off by pulling on…
Tomás Saraceno combines the activities of his favorite insect, science, and technology to create. Fascinated by how spiders navigate space through “ballooning,” or floating on air currents, Saraceno recreates the phenomenon by using a computer-generated soundtrack based on the ethereal movement of the gallery environment and what looks like a very fine thread.“This is actually spider silk you see,” Brodbeck said, adding the museum has spools of spider silk in case of any breakage.
The exhibition concludes with jewelry by designers who incorporated mechanical and interactive elements in their works. When worn, the jewelry moves. Friedrich Becker, Kinetic Bangle, 1969. Stainless steel, chrysoprase and haematite, 3 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Edward W. and Deedie Potter Rose, formerly Inge Asenbaum collection, Galerie am Graben in Vienna, 2014.33.23. Image credit: © Friedrich Becker
“Many of these artists were really interested in working across disciplines and dissolving art into daily life and there’s no better example of that than wearable art,” Brodbeck said.
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