Video: "Kinetic sculpture" at the BMW Museum
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What do you imagine when you hear the word "sculpture"? Surely some kind of volumetric form, sculpted out of clay or carved out of marble. BMW, together with the ART + COM design studio, decided to expand our understanding of this art form and presented to the audience something incredible - a sculpture made of many metal balls floating in the air and taking various forms.
The sculpture, which is located in one of the halls of the Munich BMW Museum, was simply called "Kinetic Sculpture", that is, "Kinetic sculpture". It consists of 714 metal spheres suspended from very thin steel wires (0.2 mm thick). Each wire is connected to an individual motor that drives the ball. But this is the technical side of the issue, but if we talk about emotions … The wires holding the balls are practically invisible, and from the side it seems that the spheres themselves are floating in the air! Eyewitnesses claim that the sight is unforgettable.
And the idea of "Kinetic Sculpture" is as follows. At first, the balls move chaotically, then they begin to form shapes in which the outlines of BMW cars of different years of production are guessed: BMW 327, BMW 1500, BMW Z4 and Mille Miglia concept coupe. The installation covers a surface area of six square meters, and the "mechatronic narrative" itself lasts seven minutes, after which everything starts over.
"Kinetic Sculpture" was created in 2008 and is dedicated to the celebration of the 90th anniversary of BMW. The ART + COM studio, which developed and implemented the project, received the highest One Show Design awards for this work, which is also called the "Oscar of the Advertising Industry".
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