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1947: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - Vision in Motion

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Moholy-Nagy levitating a chisel, as reproduced in Vision in Motion, ©1947

In seinem Artikel "Against Gravitropism: Art and the Joys of Levitation" 1 bietet der brasilianische Künstler Eduardo Kac eine eindrucksvolle Vorstellung von der Faszination der Schwerelosigkeit für die bildende Kunst. Das Gewicht, die Schwere behindert eine freien Blickwinkel auf das Objekt, die Schwere fesselt das Objekt an eine feste Position. Auch der Einsatz von kinetischen oder hängenden Objekten ist nur eine Notösung, da der Bewegungsraum durch die Aufhängungsvorrichtungen beschränkt bleibt.

In his seminal book Vision in Motion, published posthumously in 1947, Moholy-Nagy appears levitating a chisel with compressed air. The photograph is striking: we see Moholy-Nagy's profile and before him the object suspended in the air with no apparent means of support. In previous books Moholy-Nagy articulated notions about the evolution of sculptural form, suggesting that the virtual volume--volume created optically by the accelerated motion of an object--was a new possibility for sculpture. As an artist crossing many discipline boundaries, Moholy-Nagy also considered that in the future the neutralization of gravity could be a useful tool in design. Eduardo Kac.


1) Eduardo Kac: Against Gravitropism: Art and the Joys of Levitation, online: http://www.ekac.org/levitation.html

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