Helios - kinetic sculpture

A certain aspect of "Helios", a kinetic sculpture by (Heinz) Mack, located at Düsseldorf airport,Germany. Created in 1969, the work was destroyed by fire in 1996 and finally restored in 2004.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• helios
• mack
• kinetic
• sculpture
• videoart
• videoarte

[virgo2010ful]

cool



[moolox]

@virgo2010ful Hey, Thank You!!

[Alienated29]

I don't know what I'm looking at.

[unambitious]

...Upon further investigation I discovered this isn't the insides of alien intestines (lol), its actually rotating shiny metal plates that are bent into a helical shape. As they spin it reflects the light at different points on the helix and depending on what direction it spins it looks like the lights are moving up and down. Super cool right? (You should put this in your description maybe).

[unambitious]

Am I in an alien's intestines? Lol I kid. It looks awesome whatever it is. Wish my bedroom ceiling looked like that!

[lofgy]

blade runner

[DarkPieUk]

So......Heinz the bean company made this. Were at war O.o.

[azharoslan]

Created in 1969, the work was destroyed by fire in 1996 and finally restored in 2004.

well i would LOVE to destroy it for the 2nd time.

[reh47]

You're looking at the birth of our solar system of course!

[HarzyWarzy]

It is rectangle shaped mirrors with lights surrounding them as they spin causeing them to look like they are moving up and down or that they are round... Very good use of lighting!