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!

Servo-Robotica

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(c)image: M HKA, Christine Clinckx

Boela Matari, 2001

Collection Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke

Panamarenko

Object , 30 x 40 x 15 cm

wood, metal, clay, electric cells

A final Archaeopteryx answers to the name Boula Matari.

'And it's no accident that it was also my first little chicken that could really walk.' - Panamarenko

The name literally means 'breaker of rocks', and was a nickname of the central-African explorer Henry Morton Stanley (°1841-1904).

'A real macho man who trekked through the bush with a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. More than half his soldiers were felled by strange illnesses and infections, but that Stanley just kept on scouting around. That's why I called my little archaeopteryx Boula Matari, because it's such a Courageous Strider!' - Panamarenko

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