Art machines through engineering is the core competence of Marco Kruyt’s artistic practice.
He puts his broad technical skills as an engineer in the development and production of his art machines.
Are they kinetic works of fine art or just the mere results of a dreaming engineer?
Marco Kruyt creates his art machines with automated metalworking machinery, which he designs and builds.
Machines make art machines, on a grand and almost industrial scale, with the artist as a conductor.
The work of Marco Kruyt reflects on the tension between technology and ecology.
Speculating on the inevitable symbiosis between organism and machine, and its impact on society and environment as a whole.
career:
Marco Kruyt is an engineer by profession.
As a member of the Rotterdam artist collective Antistrot he developed his passion for the visual fine arts.
Today Marco Kruyt develops his art machines at his own discretion.
Machines in which his thoughts reflect, and dreams materialize.
2 Comments
Frans van der Meeren
January 6, 2013Leuk om rond te kijken, weet je ik heb in mijn leven veel gekke dingen gemaakt. Speeltoestellen voor openbaar gebruik ontworpen, ze worden nog steeds volop geproduceerd. Toiletten die automatisch reinigen, veel techniek ontworpen en ook het design.
Boetseren met hout, professioneel restaureren van historische toetsinstrumenten zoal piano’s en vleugels en nu (op mijn 63ste jaar) gek van draaibanken van Myford. Het zal nooit ophouden, meer ideeën dan tijd van leven.
Wel leuk om je een keer te leren kennen.
Groet, Frans
shahine ali
March 2, 2013I am seeing your work for the first time today. i came across it in a news item about the Kinetica exhibition(also the first i’d heard of it!). I just wanted to tell you i think your work is brilliant! I hope to visit your country later this year and would love to see the work for real.
Regards,
Shahine