Kinetic art

Also kineticism, art cinétique, Kinetische Kunst.

Artists

• Yaacov Agam
• Vladimir Bonačić
• Martha Boto
• Guy Brett
• Feliza Bursztyn
• Pol Bury
• Alexander Calder
• Carlos Cruz-Diez
• Milan Dobeš
• Dvizhenie
• Naum Gabo
• Gego
• Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel
• Gyula Kosice
• Liliane Lijn
• David Medalla
• László Moholy-Nagy
• Heinrich Anton Müller
• New Tendencies
• Zdeněk Pešánek
• Nicolas Schöffer
• Willoughby Sharp
• Jesús Rafael Soto
• Aleksandar Srnec
• Syntéza
• Takis
• Jean Tinguely
• Wen-Ying Tsai
• Zero
• Stanislav Zippe

Mouvement, Denise René Gallery, Paris, 1955.

Rörelse i konsten, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1961. Photo Herbert Lindgrén. [1]

Poster for the Bewogen Beweging show in Amsterdam, 1961, by Dieter Roth. [2]

The exterior of Signals at 39 Wigmore Street, London, 1966. Photo: Clay Perry.

Exhibitions

• Mouvement, curated by Denise René and Pontus Hultén, Denise René Gallery, Paris, Apr 1955. Works by Agam, Bury, Calder, Duchamp, Jacobsen, Soto, Tinguely, Vasarely.
• Bewogen Beweging / Rörelse i konsten / Bevægelse i kunsten [Movement in Art], curated by Pontus Hultén, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Mar-Apr 1961; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, May-Sep 1961; Louisiana, Humlebæk, 1961-62. In collaboration with Billy Klüver and Daniel Spoerri; 233 works by 83 artists from 18 countries. [3] [4] [5] [6]
• Dylaby: Dynamisch Labyrinth, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Aug-Sep 1962. Works by Tinguely, Spoerri, Rauschenberg, Raysse, Phalle, Ultvedt. [7]
• Signals Gallery, run by David Medalla and Paul Keeler, London, Aug 1964-1966.
• Mouvement 2, Denise René Gallery, Paris, Dec 1964-Feb 1965.
• Directions in Kinetic Sculpture, curated by Peter Selz, University Art Gallery, Berkeley, Mar-May 1966, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jun-Jul 1966.
• Indications One, Indica Gallery, London, May 1966. First exhibition in the gallery. Works by Lygia Clark and others.
• In Motion, curated by Guy Brett, Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, Oct 1966; Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, Nov 1966; Art Gallery, Oldham, Dec 1966; City Art Gallery, Leeds, Jan 1967; University, Leicester, Jan-Feb 1967. Works by Bury, Lygia Clark, Colombo, von Graevenitz, Lijn, Medalla, Soto, Takis, Tinguely.
• Kineticism, curated by Willoughby Sharp, American Abstract Artists, New York, 1966. 1-day exhibition. Works by Agam, Bury, Boriani, Boto, Calder, Haacke, Le Parc, Mack, Piene, Reiback, Soto, Takis, Tinguely, Uecker.
• Kinetic and Programmed Art, curated by Willoughby Sharp, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence, Nov-Dec 1966. Works by Boriani, Breer, Haacke, Jones, Lye, Le Parc, Machlin, Paik, Piene, Rickey, Tadlock, Takis.
• Slow-Motion, curated by Willoughby Sharp, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Jan-Feb 1967. Works by Asis, Boriani, Breer, Bury, Calder, Colombo, Duchamp, Haacke, Mack, Munari, Ray, Rickey, Salvadori, Sonnier, Soto, Takis, Tinguely, Uecker, USCO, Van Saun, de Vecchi.
• Light/Motion/Space, curated by Willoughby Sharp, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Apr-May 1967; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Jun-Jul 1967. 60+ works by 42 artists, including Antonakis, Berns, Boriani, Boto, Chryssa, Goodyear, Le Parc, Mack, McClanahan, Mefferd, Paik, Palatnick, Piene, Raysse, Tadlock, Takis, Uecker, Van Saun, Larrain. [8]
• Vom Konstruktivismus zur Kinetik, 1917 bis 1967, curated by Denise René, Hans Mayer Gallery, Krefeld, Jun-Oct 1967.
• Kinetic Environments One & Two, curated by Willoughby Sharp, Central Park, New York, 23 Jul & 29 Oct 1967. Works by Haacke, Hogle, Larrain, McClanahan, Ross, Sharp, Van Saun.
• Kineticism: Systems Sculpture in Environmental Situations (Official Olympic Games Exhibition), curated by Willoughby Sharp, University Museum of Arts and Science, Mexico City, Jul-Aug 1968. Works by Agam, Breder, Fontana, Haacke, Le Parc, Levine, Lye, Mack, McClanahan, Medalla, Morris, Piene, Soto, Takis, Tinguely, Uecker, Van Saun, Whitman.
• Kinetics, Hayward Gallery, London, Sep-Nov 1970. Works by Tinguely, Schoeffer, Paik, Malina, Lijn, Leonelli, and others.
• Le Cinétisme. Mouvement réel - Mouvement suggéré 1955-1984, Abbaye Saint-André Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymac, Jul-Dec 1984. [9]
• Constructivism and Kinetic Art / Konstruktivizam i kinetička umjetnost, curated by Marijan Susovski, City Gallery, Zagreb, Apr-Jul 1995; Moderna galerija, Rijeka, Jun-Jul 1996.
• Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, curated by Guy Brett, MACBA, Barcelona, Apr-Jun 2000, and Hayward Gallery, London, Jul-Sep 2000.
• Kinetic, University Art Gallery, Sydney, Jun-Aug 2005.
• Vibration, Vibração, Vibración: Latin American Kinetic Art of the 1960s and '70s, curated by Susan Best, University Art Gallery, Sydney, Jul-Sep 2012.

Publications

Vasarely, 'Manifeste jaune', 1955. From Le Mouvement catalogue.

Signals 1(8), 1965.

Artists' writings

Periodical

• Signals: Newsbulletin of the Centre for Advanced Creative Study, 10 issues, bi-monthly, ed. David Medalla, London: Centre for Advanced Creative Study, Aug 1964-Mar 1966; facsimile repr., index by Julian Zinovieff, London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1995. [10] [11] [12] [13] Review: Overy (1997).

Book

• Nicolas Schöffer, Le nouvel esprit artistique, Paris: Denoël, 1970. [14] (French)

Articles

• Vasarely, "Notes pour un Manifeste", in Le Mouvement, Paris: Galerie Denise René, 1955. Known as "Manifeste jaune" [The Yellow Manifesto]. (French)
• George Rickey, "The Morphology of Movement: A Study of Kinetic Art", Arts Journal 22 (1963), pp 220-231; repr. in The Nature and Art of Motion, ed. Gyorgy Kepes, New York: G. Braziller, 1965.
• Peter Selz, Harry Kramer, Len Lye, George Rickey, Takis, "The Berkeley Symposium of Kinetic Sculpture", Art and Artists Magazine, Feb & Mar 1967; repr. as Peter Selz, The Berkeley Symposium of Kinetic Sculpture. Illustrated transcript of symposium held at University of California at Berkeley, 18 Mar 1966. [15]
• Vladimir Bonačić, "Kinetic Art: Application of Abstract Algebra to Objects with Computer-Controlled Flashing Lights and Sound Combinations", Leonardo 7:3 (Summer 1974), pp 193-200.

Interviews

• Adam Nankervis, "A Stitch in Time: David Medalla", Mousse 29, Milan, 2011. (English)/(Italian)

Catalogues

• Le Mouvement, Paris: Galerie Denise René, 1955. A large sheet of yellow paper printed black, folded in four. Texts by Hultén, "Mouvement - Temps ou les quatre dimensions de la PLASTIQUE CINETIQUE" and "Petit Memento des Arts Cinétiques"; R. Bordier, "Cinéma" and "L'Oeuvre Transformable"; Manifesto by V. Vasarely on two pages: "Notes pour un Manifeste", called "le Manifeste jaune" [The Yellow Manifesto]. [16] (French)
• Rörelse i konsten, ed. Pontus Hultén, intro. Poul Henningsen, Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1961, 33+[21] pp. Special edition of Mobilia. [17] (Danish)/(English)/(French)/(German)
• Dylaby: Dynamisch Labyrinth, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962.
• Mouvement 2, Paris: Galerie Denise René, 1964, 21 pp. Text by Cassou. (French) [18] [19]
• Directions in Kinetic Sculpture, intro. George Rickey, University of California Press, 1966, 78 pp. [20]
• Indications One, London: Indica, 1966, [6] pp. [21]
• In Motion: an Arts Council Exhibition of Kinetic Art, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966, [20] pp.
• Kineticism, New York, 1966, 6 pp. With text, "Kineticism" by Willoughby Sharp.
• Kinetic and Programmed Art, Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1966, [6] pp.
• Willoughby Sharp, Günther Uecker: 10 Years of a Kineticist's Work, New York: Kineticism Press, 1966, 96 pp. [22]
• Slow-Motion: An Exhibition of Kinetic Art, New Jersey: Rutgers University, 1967, 6 pp. With text "Kineticism and Slow-Motion" by Willoughby Sharp.
• Light/Motion/Space, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1967, 36 pp. With text, "Luminism: Notes Toward an Understanding Of Light Art" by Willoughby Sharp.
• Kineticism: Systems Sculpture in Environmental Situations / Cinetismo: esculturas electrónicas en situaciones ambientales, Mexico City: University Museum of Art and Science, 1968, 55 pp. Text by Willoughby Sharp. (English)/(Spanish)
• Kinetics, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970, [76] pp.
• Le Cinétisme. Mouvement réel - Mouvement suggéré 1955-1984, Meymac: Abbaye Saint-André Centre d'art Contemporain, 1984, 28 pp. Vasarely's 1955 manifesto, text by Jean-Paul Blanchet. [23]
• Constructivism and Kinetic Art: Exat 51, New Tendencies / Konstruktivizam i kinetička umjetnost, ed. Marijan Susovski, Zagreb: City Gallery, 1995, 154 pp. Texts by Leonida Kovac, Marijan Susovski. (English)/(Croatian)
• Guy Brett, Suzanne Cotter (eds.), Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, London: Hayward Gallery, and Barcelona: ACTAR and MACBA, 2000, 334 pp. [24] [25]
• Vibração, Vibración: Latin American Kinetic Art of the 1960s and '70s, Sydney: University of Sydney, 2012, 8 pp.

Art history and theory

Books

• Stephen Bann, Reg Gadney, Frank Popper, Philip Steadman, Kinetic Art: Four Essays, St. Albans: Motion Books, 1966, 70 pp.
• Frank Popper, Naissance de l'art cinétique: l'image du mouvement dans les arts plastiques depuis 1860, pref. Étienne Souriau, Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1967, xiv+227 pp; 2nd ed., rev. & augm., as L'art cinetique, Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1970, 301 pp. [26] (French)
  • Origins and Developments of Kinetic Art, trans. Stephen Bann, New York: New York Graphic Society, 1968; London: Studio Vista, 1968.
  • L'arte cinetica: l'immagine del movimento nelle arti plastiche dopo il 1860, Turin: Einaudi, 1970, xix+355 pp. (Italian)
  • Los orígenes del arte cinético y el movimiento virtual, trans. Julieta Sucre, México: Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, 19??, 36 pp. (Spanish)
• Guy Brett, Kinetic Art, the Language of Movement, London and New York: Studio Vista/Reinhold, 1968, 95 pp.
• John Tovey, The Technique of Kinetic Art, London: Batsford, 1971, 144 pp; New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971.
• Jonathan Benthall, Science and Technology in Art Today, London: Thames and Hudson, 1972.
• E. de Bértola, El arte cinético: el movimiento y la transformación: análisis perceptivo y funcional, Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1973, 218 pp. (Spanish)
• Frank J. Malina (ed.), Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice. Selections from the Journal Leonardo, New York: Dover Publications, 1974, 244 pp.
• Frank Popper, Art—Action and Participation, New York University Press, 1975; London: Studio Vista, 1975.
  • Art, action et participation: l'artiste et la créativité aujourd'hui, Paris: Klincksieck, 1980, 368 pp. (French)
  • Arte, acción y participación: el artista y la creatividad hoy, trans. Eduardo Bajo, Madrid: Akal, 1989, 314 pp. (Spanish)
• Frank Popper, Die kinetische Kunst: Licht und Bewegung, Umweltkunst und Aktion, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1975, 205 pp. (German)
• Pamela Lee, Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s, MIT Press, 2004.
• Margit Rosen (ed.), A Little-Known Story About A Movement, A Magazine, And The Computer’s Arrival In Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973, The MIT Press, 2011. [27]

Articles

• Pontus Hultén, "La liberté substitutive ou le mouvement en art et la méta-mécanique de Tinguely", 1955; repr. in Tinguely, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, pp. 32-35. (French)
  • "Den föreställande friheteneller om rörelse i konsten och Tinguelys metamekanik", Kasark 2 (Oct 1955). (Swedish)
• Frank Popper, "Kinetic Art and Our Environment", Granta 69:1235, 25 Apr 1964, pp 12-13.
• Katharine Kuh, "Recent Kinetic Art", in The Nature and Art of Motion, ed. Gyorgy Kepes, New York: G. Braziller, 1965.
• Richard Kostelanetz, "Kinetic Art", in Kostelanetz, A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, 2nd ed., New York: Schirmer, 2000, pp 340-341.
• Carmen Juliá, "You saw it here first: Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals and Indica at Tate Britain", Tate Etc. 24 (Spring 2012). [28]

Dossier

• "Art cinétique", Centre Pompidou, 2010. Text by Norbert Godon. (French)

Audio

• Guy Brett on kinetic art, interviewed by Linda Sandino, 29 min.

Bibliographies

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/154434902/Bibliografia-Arte-Cinetico

See also

• Kinetic art in East-Central Europe.
• Further bibliography.
• Light art