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Kinetic sculptor and artist Theo Jansen builds ‘strandbeests’ from yellow plastic tubing that is readily available in his native Holland.
The graceful creatures evolve over time as Theo adapts their designs to harness the wind more efficiently. They are powered only by the wind and even store some of the wind’s energy in plastic bottle ‘stomachs’ to be used when there is no wind.
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Ion Bârlădeanu : from tramp to contemporary artist
Ion Bârlădeanu is on his way to becoming an important contemporary artist, but in May 2008 he was still an anonymous tramp on the streets of Bucharest.
Bârlădeanu describes himself as a ‘director’ of his own films and considers each collage to be a movie in itself.
With little or no resources, Bârlădeanu creates a cinematic photo-gram that tells a complete story. All his collages are a very special hybrid between pop art, with a surrealist touch and Dada. All with a little flavor of communist gulag in which films and brands symbolized possibilities of freedom.
http://www.hartgallery.ro/index.php?page=artist&id=11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/26/homeless-romanian-artist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/26/art-painting-romanian-artist
