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Pantograph

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Commissioned artwork from € 9,700. Water paints A machine that always produces different pictures. However, these are fleeting images - each one unique - because they are painted with water and evaporate: the vanished images of the pantograph humidify the air. The glass panel on which the pictures are created is frosted and coated black on the back. Because wet frosted glass becomes transparent, brushstrokes on it appear black like ink. A chaotic pendulum is equipped with brushes. The painting process is triggered by a vessel that has run full. It causes the pendulum with the brushes to rotate unpredictably. They sweep across the panel in sweeping movements and draw calligraphies of chance, moistened by a centrally flowing waterway. At the end of the action, the viewer sees a slowly fading image that will never resemble the next one.

Gerhard Zsambok

Österreich

Gerhard Zsambok launched a research project in 1988 that deals with the properties and abilities of water and has not only shown his kinetic objects in numerous exhibitions, but has also received prizes and awards for them. Based on drawings of his concepts, form and function dominate his water sculptures, which produce enigmatic, little-known phenomena and effects of water. His "magic of water" is based on the continuous renewal of flowing water without human intervention.

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Pantograph (1998)

160 x 160 x 20 cm

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