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Anthony Howe’s kinetic sculptures
The “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Special Award from the President of the Florence Biennale was bestowed to American sculptor Anthony Howe for the 2019 edition.
Born in 1954 in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), he is a strikingly innovative protagonist of the contemporary art scene for his mesmerizing wind-driven sculptures. With his Lucea he impressed actors and audience at the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony. One year earlier he had amazed with the athletes, spectators and dignitaries attending the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the cauldron made on commission of the steering committee.
"My vision was to replicate the sun – he states – using movement to mimic its pulsing energy and reflection of light".
Most of these kinetic sculptures, spinning and spiralling harmoniously in intricate patterns at the slightest breeze, are made from stainless steel and fibreglass which are bent, contorted and hammered into lightweight curvilinear pieces. High-tech textiles for windsurfing, however, might also be used by the artist in the future for new projects.
Born in 1954 in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), he is a strikingly innovative protagonist of the contemporary art scene for his mesmerizing wind-driven sculptures. With his Lucea he impressed actors and audience at the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony. One year earlier he had amazed with the athletes, spectators and dignitaries attending the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the cauldron made on commission of the steering committee.
"My vision was to replicate the sun – he states – using movement to mimic its pulsing energy and reflection of light".
Most of these kinetic sculptures, spinning and spiralling harmoniously in intricate patterns at the slightest breeze, are made from stainless steel and fibreglass which are bent, contorted and hammered into lightweight curvilinear pieces. High-tech textiles for windsurfing, however, might also be used by the artist in the future for new projects.
Anthony Howe: creativity through art and science
Characterised by an aesthetic of harmonious moving shapes and an unparalleled elegance of line, these works seem to come alive when the wind rises. Anthony Howe's creative flair, combined with an evident knowledge of physical and mechanical engineering, generates highly suggestive works of art that express, in a contemporary way, that yearning for life inspired by the harmony of nature and its fundamental forces found in Leonardo.
A drawing from 1487 - now in the Codex Atlanticus in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (f. 675r) - shows how Da Vinci imagined an anemometer to "measure how far one goes per hour with the course of a wind. Here we need an orilogy showing the hours, points and minutes", as he himself wrote, or an anemoscope to indicate the direction.
https://www.howeart.net/
A drawing from 1487 - now in the Codex Atlanticus in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (f. 675r) - shows how Da Vinci imagined an anemometer to "measure how far one goes per hour with the course of a wind. Here we need an orilogy showing the hours, points and minutes", as he himself wrote, or an anemoscope to indicate the direction.
https://www.howeart.net/
