KEN EHRLICH
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Kinetic Companion: El Lissitzky responds to Proun 3A, 1920

A series of kinetic sculptures that responded to specific paintings held in LACMA's permanent collection and were installed alongside of the original paintings.

Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008

 

Kinetic Companion: Mondrian responds to Composition in White, Red, and Yellow, 1936

Animating either formal or thematic elements in the paintings,the sculptures foreground the dynamic relationship between two and three dimensional systems of representation.

Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008

 

Kinetic Companion: Mondrian responds to Composition in White, Red, and Yellow, 1936

Each sculpture acts like an interpretive machine, playfully exploring the utility of abstraction.

Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008

 

Kinetic Companion: Pousette-Dart responds to The Edge, 1943-1945

 

Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008