Panamarenko

The Belgian artist Panamarenko is a visual artist and inventor of celestial machines that draw on the resources of our imagination. His favourite field of play is aerotechnics, although he approaches science as a self-taught enthusiast. He is interested in machines and their mechanisms, not from an engineering perspective. Rather, his research constitutes a deliberate scientific regression. He explains: ‘I am not a scientist, nor am I someone who creates works of art. The most important thing for me is that there is, from time to time, a kind of poetry in what I create. ” Most of his machines are ‘supposedly’ flying, all powerfully playful, drawing us into the evocative power of the stars and clouds. His Silver Disc, meanwhile, offers us a sort of fabulous parable, an antenna connected to… whatever we care to dream of. Originally from Antwerp, whose real name is Henri Van Herwegen, Panamarenko takes his pseudonym from ‘Pan American Airways’ whilst suggesting a Russian surname: off to conquer space!

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