Curious Contraptions | Paul Spooner | Exploratorium
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2016
- Meet Paul Spooner, one of the automata artists whose work is showcased at the Exploratorium's Curious Contraptions exhibition.
This special exhibition features more than 20 charming and often hilarious mechanical sculptures known as automata. Their whimsical characters are brought to life by intricate arrangements of cams, cranks, and other simple mechanisms.
Each sculpture performs an absurd miniature drama that often reflects its maker’s dark and very British sense of humor. Exposed inner workings encourage visitors to investigate the low-tech mechanisms used to make these automata move. Additional exhibits offer a closer look at the most common simple mechanisms.
The exhibition also features sketches from the notebooks of leading automata artist Paul Spooner, as well as photographs of his delightfully cluttered workshop.
Most of the automata on display are on loan from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, British advocates of this peculiar art form for more than 30 years.
www.exploratorium.edu/curious...
So sad the shop vanished from Covent Garden, London. Genius man.
Paul Spooner is a brilliant man, these are not toys with a lot of scientific and physics and mathematics and geometry and art and so much more associated with them. These are indeed great little machines where science, etc is associated with entertainment. Well done ,Sir.
Such an artistic genius to visualize the cams and inner workings, just for our enjoyment! That is dedication.
I met Paul Spooner in 2004 at one of his shows and he was kind to me 😺
Died laughing at An Allegory of Love. Absolutely brillant interview!
This is GREAT! Thank you for sharing!
Amazing!!
Brilliant
He is a smart man
❤❤❤🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
I’m only here because i have homework about him
i got it now lol
Same but I instantly thought he was a amazing man and I nearly forgot about homework.👏
Hallo war gar nicht hilfreich