Gerrit van Bakel

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Gerrit van Bakel (born October 17, 1943 in Ysselsteyn , Venray , † November 18, 1984 in Deurne ) was a painter, furniture designer and the first Dutch representative of kinetic art .

life and work

Van Bakel was born the sixth of eight children. For the first eight years he grew up on a farm in the De Peel rain moor , on the border between the Dutch provinces of Limburg and North Brabant . After the death of his father, he grew up with his aunt and uncle in Deurne. In 1960 he began to paint and in 1963 made the acquaintance of Willi Martinali (1914–1983) and Johan Lennarts (1932–1991). Gerrit van Bakel attended the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost in 's-Hertogenbosch from 1963 to 1965 . After two student years, van Bakel moved to Helenaveen, a Deurne village near De Groote Peel, in 1966 . He stayed in contact with some of his former fellow students and met regularly with the architects Arne van Herk and Jos Jansen.

Gerrit van Bakel is the father of Jenneke, Dorus and Michiel van Bakel (* 1966).

In 1984 Gerrit van Bakel died of a heart attack. He lived and worked in Deurne . A street was named after him in the “De Vennen” development area.

Furniture, toys and wall objects (plywood period)

Gerrit van Bakel's furniture is intended for use. They have a function and are made of plywood .

Between 1966 and 1975 he built chairs, tables, sofas and rocking chairs. Small furniture, toys and playhouses suitable for children were created.

The wall objects can be folded manually as desired so that the yellow-red surface or the blue surface can be seen.

The day and night principle

His first large machine (8 meters high), which he built between 1975 and 1977, was the "Dag-en night machine / day and night machine". By the increase and decrease of the volume of material as a result of the temperature difference between day and night minimal movements arise in the machine. This natural energy, which is also released by the surf or the wind , is a basic artistic motif in Gerrit van Bakel's work.

The machines (1976–1981)

In the next few years Gerrit van Bakel constructed several kinetic objects. In the rabbit object (1978–1980) only the ears move. Die Kreis Maschinen (1979–80) Day and Night Machines on wheels, draw a circle out of pencil or charcoal over a period of three months. In the London machine , fog is the cause of the expansion and contraction of the nylon threads. The Berlin machine moves, only at night, through the expansion of brass wire.

Other kinetic objects are the Eindhoven Attendance Machine , (1980), the Papin Machine , (1981), the World Trolleys , The Summer Wheel (1982–1983) and the Preliminary Rainbow Machine (1982–1984).

The Utah – Tarim Connection (1980)

The Utah machine moves 18 mm per day. It is driven by the sun and is a moving wheel, which is held upright by support struts. The Utah machine refers to the rocket car Blue Flame , which in 1970 in the Great Salt Desert in Utah reached h, a speed of over 1000 km /.

The Tarim machine , a kind of steel spider or millipede, moves through long pipes in which oil reacts to different day and night temperatures. The minimal movement is barely noticeable. It would take the object approximately 30 million years to cross the Tarim Basin . The Tarim machine refers to the test site Lop Nor in the Lop Nor desert where threefold since 1970 test flight speed of sound occur.

Van Bakel showed the preliminary rainbow machine , A New Possibility of Papin's Joy , The Form of a Horror and the Tarim Machine at documenta 7 in Kassel.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Gerrit van Bakel: 7 machines, Gerrit van Bakel, Rudi Fuchs , Stedelijk Museum zHet Domein, Studium Generale TU / e, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie: Gerrit van Bakel , accessed on February 26, 2015 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Ine Poppe, 2011 De tijd balt samen bij Vader en zoon Van Bakel ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed February 28, 2015 (Dutch) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michielvanbakel.nl
  3. ↑ D. Linders Van de Peel naar de Peel met een omweg sprach de Wereld , accessed on February 28, 2015 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Points of condensation in a continuous stream of thought, Jaap Bremer Gerrit van Bakel , accessed on February 28, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ Rudi Fuchs 2001 Gerrit van Bakel-een herinnering , accessed on February 26, 2015 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Points of condensation in a continuous stream of thought, Jaap Bremer Gerrit van Bakel , accessed on February 28, 2015 (English).
  7. ↑ Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); P. 28, Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
  8. ↑ Trouw, Dolf Welling, 1992 Zalen vol thinking hire van een Brabander dichterlijke Gerrit van Bakel , accessed on 26 February 2015 (Dutch).
  9. ↑ Winnaar Witteveen + Bos-prijs voor Kunst + Techniek 2007 , accessed on February 26, 2015 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Bakel, Gerrit van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter, furniture designer and representative of kinetic art
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ysselsteyn , Venray
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1984
Place of death Deurne , Netherlands