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Mur lumière
1976
Nicolas Schoffer
Highlights
298 x 198 x 57 cm
Système électrique
© Adagp, Paris, 2007
Commenced in1957, Nicolas Schöffer’s series of works called Lux were his first luminoussculptures with mobile light effects. In tandem, the artist developed histheory of “lumino-dynamism”. Nine years later, he introduced the Lumino, adevice displaying slow-moving coloured light effects, and the first work of artdestined to be mass produced (by Philips). This is the system at work in thesculpture/visual polychrome structure shown here.
Died in Paris.
In 1948, Nicolas Schöffer invents spatiodynamic sculpture and builds metallic structures which, powered by electricity, cast lights. He wants to apply art and architecture to every day life, and conceives and ideal metropolis : “the leisure city”. He imagines a suspended metropolis, because the “enjoying system” has to replace the “working system”. He invents shell-houses, touristy and sexual leisure programs, managed by electronic brains. As of 1956, he makes clocks, bricks, spatiodynamic prisms, teleluminoscopes, luminorelaxes, CYSP1, the dancing robot. He builds monumental cybernetic towers (a tower of 52 meters for the light-dynamic show in Liège,1961). From the 1970's, he sets up his dynamic sculptures worldwide and writes some texts and books defining himself a a theorician of the "kinetic art, of sculpture changing it aspect thirty times per second and of the spatial urbanism". In 1988 and 1989, he creates some drawings thanks to the graphic tablet and the computer (Chorégraphics and Ordinagraphics).
Artwork of
Nicolas Schoffer
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