Panamarenko

An artist, an inventor and a visionary, Panamarenko has conducted an exceptional long-term research on concepts such as space, movement, flying, energy and gravity. His work is a combination of an artistic insight and a technological experimentation.
As an introduction to his practice M HKA has mapped out almost his entire oeuvre in a chronologically and thematicly structured digital platform. M HKA would like to share the gathered information further with the public. Welcome to the digital archive!

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Flying Cigar Called Flying Tiger, 1980

Da Vinci Collection

Panamarenko

Object , 44 x 145 x 41 cm

plywood, coper wire, motors, string, glue, metal stand

Panamarenko explores different possibilities to make use of magnetic fields between planets for space travels, calling the former 'cosmic highways'. Flying Cigar Called Flying Tiger is a rather technical, abstract-looking rig that consists of three cylinders. A central, two-pole part that, by means of its gigantic magnetic field must get 'lift' vis-à-vis the Earth's magnetic field. And on both sides of that, a two-pole 'arm' to keep the balance.

This whole UFO legend is full of plates and flying cigars. The plates are the flying saucers belonging to the mother ship, and the mother ship is the cigar. The latter is actually a very big hollow tube. And those cylinders must by that big in order to be able to catch enough magnetic power. It's a spaceship that's eight hundred meters long and it can hold four thousand men.

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