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!

Panamarenko

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(c)image: Claudy Kremer, Courtesy The Deweer Collection - Otegem

Helikopter, 1973-1986

Collection Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem

Panamarenko

Object , 100 x 900 x 500 cm

plastic, metal, wood, felt, paint; along with a display case with various objects

'Cayley also made helicopter-like things, although they look more like toys. For instance, feathers with their quills in a stopper. When wound up under tension it would fly a good ways, and then when the feathers opened it would drift calmly to the ground.' - Panamarenko

Panamarenko wrote an illustrated text in the early 1970s on the helicopter’s potential to conquer the air. He did not create this version, however, until 1986. He previously built a number of variations which – although they used lifting force and rotor blades (his Portable Air Transport, for instance, and the flying bicycle Das Flugzeug) – were not constructed according to the standard helicopter model with a cabin and tail rotor. He used a pedal-drive for the construction of this 1986 helicopter and unusually long blades to increase the carrying capacity.

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