Panamarenko 1940 - now

Visionary artist, experimenter of genius and prolific inventor, Panamarenko is a leading and remarkable figure in contemporary art.

Considered as one of the most important artist of the current European scene, Panamarenko (born in Antwerp in 1940) studied at the local Académie des Beaux-Arts at a very young age, where he experimented with different materials and created a series of play objects in which utopia already plays an important role. His first exhibition was held at the Wide White Space Gallery in 1966, the year in which he adopted the pseudonym Panamarenko, an abbreviation of "Pan American Airlines Company".

Panamarenko's extraordinary sculptures--flying machines, submarines, and cars--blend science and art, technology and fantasy, the mechanical and the organic. For over thirty years this Belgian artist, who adopted the pseudonym Panamarenko in the 1960s, has obsessively explored movement, flight, space, energy and the force of gravity in his work. This new catalogue documents a major exhibition of his sculptures and drawings in London--an astounding spectacle that includes a giant flying saucer and his renowned "Aeromodeller", an airship that fills an entire gallery. Panamarenko is in a sense one of the most original and visionary artists of the postwar period: his works are aesthetic inventions rather than representations; they resonate with the poetic and fantastical dimensions of the different forms of earthly and extra-terrestrial motion--like hovering, floating, and flying--as well as his fascination with systems of energy, magnetic fields, and the cosmos.

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Nasce ad Anversa, Belgio, nel 1940. Frequenta dal 1955 al 1960 la Regia Accademia di Belle Arti di Anversa, studiando nel frattempo meccanica, chimica e scienze naturali.
Bibliografia essenziale
Libri:
Panamarenko The Mechanisms of Gravity... Bielefeld, Edition Marzona, 1975;
Panamarenko, Thays, H. The Complete Works, 1963-1992. Ghent, 1992;
Panamarenko Toy Model of Space (The Sun and the Stars). Antwerpen, Edition Ronny Van de Velde, 1993.
Articoli:
Hirsch, C. "Panamarenko et la mythologie de la science". In Panamarenko, Berlin/Otterlo/ Bruxelles, 1978;
Grisebach, L. "Panamarenko, Kunst ist Poesie". In Panamarenko, München, Haus der Kunst, 1982;
Panamarenko, Eisenhoet, B. "Wakantanka. Some Faxes by Panamarenko and Bedrich Eisenhoet". In Panamarenko, Tokyo, 1992.
Interviste:
Van Daalen, P. "Introductie en Fragmenten uit gesprekken met Panamarenko". In Panamarenko, Middelburg, 1975;
De Baere, B. e Hoet, Jan. "Panamarenko. An Interview". Flash Art Internatinal, maggio-giugno 1989. http://www.labiennale.com/visual_a/xlvii/mostre_it/Panamarenko/panamare.htm

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