Kinetic sculpture
Sculpture that moves, driven by motors, wind or the viewer, so time becomes part of the work.
Moving sculpture grew through the twentieth century, from Naum Gabo's motorised Kinetic Construction of 1920 to Alexander Calder's mobiles. Len Lye came to it after decades of film, and saw his sculptures as a continuation of his films.
From the late 1950s he built what he called tangible motion sculpture: rods, loops and blades of steel driven by motors, flexing, spinning and crashing. The Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, New Zealand, opened in 2015 to hold his work.
Films to start with
In the order they were made. Runtimes are approximate.
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