Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Viktor
- Artist name
-
Jürg Lehni
- Date created
- 2006 - 2016
- Classification
- installation
- Medium
- DC motors, tool head, coils with sprung steel belts, cables, custom-made controller, and Paper.js software
- Dimensions
- dimensions variable
- Date acquired
- 2015
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase - Copyright
- © Jürg Lehni
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2015.7
- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.
Swiss artist and designer Jürg Lehni reveals the history and philosophy behind his work Viktor (2006–16). He discusses how this large-scale chalk-drawing machine installed at SFMOMA explores issues of communication and technology through medium and imagery.
See more electro-mechanical art: https://youtu.be/sheqnycAWkM
Jürg Lehni’s work: http://juerglehni.com/
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