'Wind Walkers: Theo Jansen's Strandbeests' in Singapore is a major retrospective of Jansen's life work. The Dutch sculptor has spent the last 28 years developing a series of wind-powered machines called Strandbeests, which he describes as a new species on Earth. Photos: Handout
It is both startling and mesmerising to see Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests walk on the beach, sails aflutter and steadily gaining momentum as the wind picks up. These enormous kinetic sculptures are wind-powered machines that the Dutch sculptor Jansen has dedicated almost three decades of his life to, creating a new species on Earth – as he fondly refers to them – that blurs the lines between art and engineering, mechanics and biology.
These self-propelled Strandbeests (“beach animals” in Dutch) are intricately assembled from everyday materials, mostly PVC tubing.
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