Elias Crespin

thumb|Elias CrespinElias Crespin (born 1965) is a Venezuelan kinetic artist. Crespin is known for his moving, motorized sculptures, made of series of suspended geometric elements that slowly evolve and unfold in the air. He lives in Paris. Quotes In 2018, I took part in the Artistes & Robots show at the Grand Palais in the thanks to Miguel Chevalier who put my name forward to the exhibition’s curators, Jérôme Neutres and Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac. They in turn suggested I use the grand staircase area to hang one of my pieces. It was complex, and technical challenge to install my work there because there was only one suspension point for an otherwise large space. For the work to have relevance in this location, it needed to be large. The management of the Louvre museum saw this piece, called Grand HexaNet, while visiting the Artistes & Robots show, and thus the idea of ​​having a similar type of work in the Palace of the Louvre museum was born. I work with very simple geometry, lines, circles, even triangles and squares. I line them up, assemble them, make them concentric or intricate. So the shapes are usually simple and refined, we could say elegant in the sense of achieving a goal with minimal resources. I use as little visual resources as as I can simply the movement of the line, to explore the world of motion and matter moving in time. We set up maintenance and repair procedures with the department in the museum in charge of the piece. There is basic maintenance such as dusting, as well as more technical but feasible maintenance. Then there is the obsolescence of the various components, which we cannot anticipate ahead of time. For instance, the sculpture is ordered by WiFi. The piece is connected and remotely controlled by WiFi, stopped and started by WiFi. In fifty years, will WiFi still exist or not? We don’t know, but there will be an evolutionary path between WiFi and the next wireless communication system. We will have the authorizations (from my part) and the procedures to make these adaptations. interview with Elias Crespin Category:1965 births Category:Living people