Kinetica Artfair
Peter Logan
Peter Logan
Peter Logan was born in Oxfordshire, in 1943. He graduated from Slade School of Fine Art (1966-68).
Logan has made kinetic sculpture since 1968. Early pieces which performed aerobatics were powered by electricity and controlled electronically. Since 1978 he has worked on outdoor sculpture using wind power, the character and strength of the wind determining movement.
The success and control that the artist has in the way these sculptures work depends largely on their technical excellence. Logan has built up a high degree of skill over the years, learnt mostly from the engineers with whom he has collaborated. The elements of nature and chance have to be harnessed positively, and any weaknesses in the design can result in the sculpture being destroyed.
Peter Logan exhibits his work against architecture and in wild places, locations as diverse as London´s Economist Plaza in St Jamess and the beaches of Neeltje Jans in Holland.
Fandango 1999
Solar Mobile
The solar mobile sculpture derives energy from sunlight to perform a dance inspired by the Spanish Fandango.
A short pulse from a low energy electric motor instigates the mobile´s movement and a chain reaction of movement is created from two conflicting centrifugal forces of freely rotating parts.
Red Rondo 2004
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
- T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
Turning Stone, Touch Stone 1994
"Turning Stone, Touch Stone" is a maquette for a sculpture of movement generated from the wind. The granite stones cast in aluminium were found on the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland. It is the oldest granite of Europe and mostly lies hidden deep below the earths surface but appears in a few places including the Isle of Harris on the West Coast of Scotland."
- Peter Logan
Kindly loaned by Peter Logan
