Last month, I saw an exhibition of Pe Lang, a Swiss installation artist in the Digital Art Museum in Zurich. The installations in the exhibition were related to minimal kinetic artworks which control and put physical forces in action with a captivating elegance. The way he made use of the feature of the material and physical phenomenon to create elegant works are brilliant. Most of the works in there were using motors to provide motions but each of them in different works was performing different features and they were interesting. It was easy to see the artist was experimenting with different possibilities to make use the material. For example “Simplicity no.1”, it was used the motor to rotate 16 rods by one rotating clockwise and the other counter-clockwise to create the waveform while “Modular no.1” was using motors attached with fish silk to create vibration for tiny rubber rings to bounce and create the illusion that the ring could move back when it touched another ring.
The exhibition is really inspiring as the way the artist experiment the medium he used was appealing. He used many small components together to create a large installation or mechanics system. And also encourage me to do more tests on my projects to explore more possibilities.
Simplicity no.1
Polarization No.11
Wong Chui Yin, Iris 