Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s stunning walking sculptures showcased in new exhibition
A new exhibition in Delft, The Strandbeesten Mortuary, showcases the life and evolution of Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s iconic wind-powered beach creatures. Made from materials like PVC pipes and plastic bottles, these kinetic sculptures have "lived" and "died" on the Dutch coastline since 1990.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/11/dutch-artist-theo-jansens-stunning-walking-sculptures-showcased-in-new-exhibition
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A new exhibition in Delft, The Strandbeesten Mortuary, showcases the life and evolution of Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s iconic wind-powered beach creatures. Made from materials like PVC pipes and plastic bottles, these kinetic sculptures have "lived" and "died" on the Dutch coastline since 1990.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/11/dutch-artist-theo-jansens-stunning-walking-sculptures-showcased-in-new-exhibition
Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.
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00:28Every year in spring I go to the beach with a new animal, usually, and then I do, you know, some I do experiments, and in the fall I'm a little bit wiser how these animals should survive in the future, and then I declare the animals extinct, so they are dead, and they go to the boneyard, and during the years there has been a sort of evolutionary history, you could say, and you could see these animals as a sort of natural historical
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01:02To handle the wind is something like working in a circus with the lions. You have to be friendly against them and somehow to influence their behavior and see how you can use it. That's the trick.
01:28You see a kind of development in the way he does things, so they start out very simple, and then they get increasingly complicated, so they evolve, so as he tells it himself, there's an evolution in his design.
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