Anemograph
“anemograph
(ə-něm’ə-grāf’)
An anemometer that uses a recording device to document wind speed and direction continuously. ”
— Dictionay.com
Art installation during the Festival des Architectures Vives, in the Courtyard of Aurès of Montpellier in France. Festival of Architectures Vives lasts 6 days in June.
E. Gobin, C. Morin, B. Joudrier and L. Girault have made a pen for the Wind during 6 days thanks to a mobile, moving due to the air created by spectators' walks and the changing climate. The mobile enabled the Wind to express itself on canvas (4x4 m).
"The anemograph"
The ten represents excellence by the completion of a cycle and the beginning of a new era. He has a sense of the whole and return to unity. A mobile summarizes these concepts, it embodies motion, instability and perpetual transformation defying the laws of gravity and balance. This is a lightweight structure whose elements are suspended in motion under the action of air and wind flow.
The mobile
Articulated on several strips of wood, tapered volumes float and move without constraints.
These are filled with ink by a pipetting device, falls dropwise on a canvas. "The anemograph" captures its environment and immediately transcribed onto a canvas under the eye of the intrigued viewer.
Time and motion materialize randomly and in a poetic way on a new page. They symbolize the beginning of a new decade and the tenth of the "Festival des Architectures Vives" in Montpellier, France.
Bars are made of wood, slightly painted in white at the center and left plain on ends. As the center is white, bars are confounding with their environment.
Cones are made of steel. Their manufacturing has been made in atelier, (handmade) a piece of steel (aluminium, 50 by 40 cm) was turned and folded in the purpose of shaping the cone. All the cones are similar, it was the weights for making stability of the mobile.
The painting is made of 4 canvases (1x4 m). Now, the four canvases with the Wind’s drawings are private.
The surprise was the result of the feature, mechanical but random, the wind wrote.
4 paintings have separated after six days, written evidence of the climate of Montpellier, South and hot climate.
The paintings were displayed on the walls of the city leaving its Southern write, readable from Paris.
