Video: Kinetic sculptures by Anthony Hove
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Anthony Howe is a typical city dweller, in whose biography you come across references to places like Manhattan or Seattle at every turn. And yet it was he, who grew up in the stone jungle, who managed to find a common language with the forces of nature, making them allies in his work. Wind is the main component, without which Hove's sculptures simply could not exist.
As you may have guessed, Anthony Hove is engaged in the creation of kinetic sculptures, that is, those that can move. This trend in art arose not so long ago - in the mid-50s of the last century, and as an additional example, we can recall the works of Theo Jansen, already mentioned on the pages of our blog. However, unlike Jansen's plastic sculptures, our hero works with metal, mainly steel. Using steel bars combined with forged curved shapes and fiberglass-coated discs, Howe creates fantastic sculptures. In calm weather, they surprise with their elegance, and with the slightest breath of wind they set in motion, spinning in a dance that they only understand and creating an inexplicable secret harmony.
Anthony Hove has been creating kinetic sculptures for nearly 20 years. “I'm trying to create objects whose appearance will be associated with the attributes of science fiction as well as biological and astronomical models,” says the author.
Of course, it makes no sense to talk about kinetic sculptures, showing them only in photographs. An example of one of Hove's works in motion is in front of you, and you can get acquainted with the rest of his works on the website.
The sculptor was born in 1954 in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA). Anthony Hove began his creative career as an artist and only after moving to New York moved from painting to sculpture. The author became widely known in the late 1990s.
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