Here a bit more detail on the illudium
space modulator «satellite» component of the GISS stew.
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Space Modulator (1930, Busch - Reisinger Museum, Harvard University)
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Space Modulator, 1942 Oil and incised lines on perspex in original frame Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Image Credit: László Moholy, Nagy Light
Space Modulator, 1930.
This series of works is inspired by László Moholy - Nagy's Light
Space Modulator (1930) and Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique (1924).
Space Modulator, 1939 — 45.
Kessler's work since the»80s has been aligned with the tradition of kinetic sculpture and assemblage that emerged in the early twentieth century — such works as Marcel Duchamp's Rotoreliefs, Moholy Nagy's time /
space modulators and Yves Tinguely's self - destructive machines are obvious sources — but filtered through the erratic, jury - rigged aesthetic of artists like Robert Rauschenberg and the improvised, makeshift special effects of B - filmmaker Ed Wood.
Not exact matches
• Movement Early ideas of kinetic art, epitomized by Bird in
Space (1925 - 31, Kunsthaus, Zurich) by Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957); Rotative Plaques (1920, Yale University Art Gallery) by Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968); Kinetic Construction (1919 - 20, Tate London) by Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977); numerous «mobiles» by Alexander Calder and works like Light -
Space -
Modulator (1930, Busch - Reisinger Museum) by Laszlo Moholy - Nagy (1895 - 1946).
For instance, perhaps it was coincidental, but although the Calder Foundation site claims that Alexander Calder, following a visit to Piet Mondrian's studio made his first wholly abstract compositions and invented the kinetic sculpture in 1930, Moholy - Nagy's kinetic sculpture Light -
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Modulator, designed in 1922, was exhibited for the first time in Paris, also in 1930.