most of us would think of kites,
but not Dutch artist Theo Jansen, his thought turn towards strange creatures that powered by the wind make their way across Dutch beaches, as it happens we mentioned the artist once before in August 2018,
but Theo has been constructing large-scale, kinetic beings powered entirely by the wind since 1990, the beasts being known as Strandbeest,
the works which weigh around 180 kilograms and use 2,000 to 3,000 meters of PVC pipe, in the spring work starts and he uses the summer months to tweak their function so that they better withstand the sand, water, and other elements,
the artist recently compiled a collection of his works in the video above, which chronicles the Strandbeest evolution during the past few years a survey of Jansen’s Strandbeests runs through July 3 at Kuntsmuseum Den Haag, and Hannibal Books released a catalog to coincide with the exhibition, you can explore more of the artist’s practice and elaborately built animal kingdom on his site and YouTube, what amazing creatures, if you can all them that, they really are.
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