Les Machines de l'île

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Les Machines de l'île is a French exhibition project in Nantes that shows the mechanical objects of the performance group “ La Machine ” in an exhibition hall in the port of Nantes . It is particularly characterized by its elements of steampunk .

Les Machines de l'île was founded by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice and opened in 2007 in a large warehouse in the Loire port on l'Ile de Nantes. It has now become a tourist attraction in the city. Large mechanical objects designed by Delarozière and built by “La Machine”, an association of artists, engineers and craftsmen, since 1991 can be seen. François Delarozière, born in 1963, studied at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille Academy.

The “imaginary worlds” take up ideas from Jules Verne , Leonardo da Vinci and from the industrial history of Nantes. So far, u. a. the mechanical objects The Marine Worlds Carrousel (Carrousel des mondes marins) and The Heron Tree (L'Arbre aux Hérons).

With a height of 12 meters, Le Grand éléphant , German 'The Great Elephant' , English The Great Elephant , is the largest object. The 40-ton, movable sculpture originally had room for up to 35 people, and the capacity was increased to 52 people in several stages. The “Grand éléphant” walks a few hundred meters through the area with its guests. All objects can be viewed in public in the warehouse (like in a museum). The 13-meter-long and 37-ton mechanical spider, La Princesse , was first presented during the 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations in Liverpool , England , where it roamed the city from September 3rd to 7th. The machine made of steel and poplar wood was controlled by 12 people; the total cost of the project was £ 1.5 million .

La Galerie des Machines

See also

• Royal de Luxe

Web links

Commons : Les Machines de l'île  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Machines de l'Ile website (French, English, Spanish, German)
• Phil Hogan: How Liverpool fell for a giant creepy-crawly. In: theguardian.com, September 7, 2008
• ViennaTraveller: The Nantes elephant. (No longer available online.) In: 22places.de. Sebastian Ritter, Jenny Mitscher, archived from the original (information and photos). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Till Eckert: This French amusement park is psychedelic madness. In: ze.tt. Ze.tt , November 7, 2016, accessed on August 17, 2018 . 
2. ^ François Delarozière. In: lamachine.fr, accessed on August 17, 2018 (French, English).
3. ↑ Martina Wimmer (text), Robert Voit (photos): The monsters of Nantes . In: mare - The magazine of the seas . tape 109 , 2015, ISSN  1432-928X , p. 80-95 ( Prologue - Memento in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Le Grand éléphant. In: lesmachines-nantes.fr, accessed on August 16, 2018 (German).
5. ^ Georges Rouzeau: Nantes under the sign of culture ( Memento of November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: viamichelin.de, accessed on October 16, 2017.
6. ↑ Giant spider stalks city streets. In: BBC News . September 6, 2008, accessed October 16, 2017.