Smith & Winken
Mechanical Art
Valeriy Kuznetsov and Otto Winken, developed a signature style involving mechanics and architectural proportions to highlight the beauty of our everyday world from a new perspective. Their artwork is technical and unexpected. Using mundane materials, they creatively demonstrate connections between mechanics and bionics. These artworks remind us that each being is a mechanism in a way.
Endless Movement
The duo has brought forth a series of kinetic objects grouped in a collection called ‘Endless Movement’ that can almost be characterized performance art.
The two artists, whose real names are Valeriy Kuznetsov and Otto Winken, developed a signature style involving mechanics and architectural proportions to highlight the beauty of our everyday world from a new perspective.
Harmony
Smith & Winken undertook a mechanical renaissance of sorts to put the beauty of mechanics in the electronic-virtual era on display. The main task of each artwork is to display organic harmony in the mechanics while ensuring that the object is artistic and meaningful based on the duo’s perception of life and origin.
Kuznetsov and Winken usually find the inspiration for a piece from an art image – “in a dream,” the duo laughed when asked – after which they make sketches and determine the piece’s size, proportions, and dimensions. The duo does not use software for their sketches; no CAD or CAM is used in the making of these artworks at all. Instead, they manually draw their own blueprints.
Gallery
Collection
Endless Movement is a collection of limited-edition kinetic sculptures currently containing 18 artworks. The MB&F M.A.D.Gallery in Dubaï has the pleasure of featuring six of these: Thrinax, Apollo 18, Hover, Bishop and two variations of Skipper.
Apollo 18
Skipper
Hover
Thrinax
Skipper
Apollo 18
Thrinax
Hover
Other Artists
Utinam
Abrasax
