Video: Drawings with gears. Kinetic cartoons by Kristine Suhr (video)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
So, just a little bit different. Or "like that, but with mother-of-pearl buttons." Something like this an artist Kristine Suhr wondered what specialization to choose at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts. The drawing seemed to her too boring, the sculpture too cumbersome, but still she had to stop at something. The problem of choice was resolved when Christine Sur became acquainted with the work of the Mechanical Cabaret Theater, which performed at Covent Garden. Their performances of movable volumetric sculptures made of paper and wood inspired the artist, and her own kinetic cartoons with levers and gears. To begin with, Christine Sur tried to imitate cabaret theater, cutting out figures from cardboard and thick paper, but they were too fragile and weak to help her bring her plans to life. Then she experimented with other materials, and settled on thin birch plywood. From that moment on, she carves all her kinetic paintings from plywood and paints them with acrylic paints, and then connects wooden mechanisms to them to power the figures. This is how her unusual creative works are born, which can be both static and dynamic art forms.
Kinetic sculptures are a more sophisticated version of the same clamshell pictures that were used to illustrate children's books. You open the page, and a tree, house or car "grows" on the spread. And if you pull the paper "tongue", you can see a man peeping out of the house, a squirrel climbing a tree, and a car slowly moving along the highway. The same principle works with kinetic sculptures. At first glance, these are ordinary paintings in massive wooden frames. Unless a lever or a handle on this frame can cause confusion. First of all, children will grab this strange appendage and begin to twist, pull or rotate it - and they will do the right thing, because this is the only way to see the very "cartoon", which is this creative work of the talented artist. So, frozen women will immediately start washing dishes or sweeping the floor, men - leafing through the newspaper and drinking coffee, fish - swimming in a pond, birds - flying across the sky, in general, the pictures will come to life and begin to tell us their stories. And looking behind the "revived" picture, you can see a mechanism - a system of wooden gears and joints - which drives the wooden figures.
Kinetic paintings by Christine Sur are humorous, sometimes with stupid, absurd plots, but invariably evoke a smile, and therefore a good mood. In this she sees one of the main goals of her work - to give people positive emotions and another reason to laugh. Moreover, the characters cannot but evoke sympathy. Christine Sur depicts the life and everyday life of the most ordinary people who drink coffee and chat with friends, wash dishes and sweep floors, dance and read books, swim and ride a bicycle, in general, do the same thing that we all do. Despite the fact that the plots are mostly naive and simple, this gives the paintings a special charm. You can feel this charm by watching a video of what kinetic paintings look like in motion, or by looking at Kristine Suhr's website.
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