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PANAMARENKO

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Panamarenko

BATOPILLO (BRONZE)

PANAMARENKO (1940 – 2019. Antwerp, Belgium) was an extraordinary, inimitable artist within the Belgian and international art scene. Henri Van Herwegen, Panamarenko’s given name, derived his mysteriously sounding artist name from a Russian general whose name he heard in 1958 over his self-made transistor radio on which he was able to receive a Potsdam (then part of the DDR) radio station. He thought the name sounded good and from 1965 it became his permanent pseudonym.

As an artist, – engineer, – physicist, – inventor and – visionary, Panamarenko conducted exceptional research into fields such as space, movement, flight and gravity. His work is a combination of artistic and technological experiments, an attitude he undoubtedly inherited from his architect father, and takes on various forms: airplanes, balloons, submarines, cars, flying carpets, birds … each time spectacular constructions of unconventional beauty, at the same playful and impressive.

Panamarenko is also known for the fact that his contraptions usually don’t work. It is the dream of flying, diving,… that we are looking at. The experiment matters more than the result. His Donnariet (2003) submarine, for example, can’t really dive, it’s more like an underwater pedalo which is powered by pedalling with your feet.

Panamarenko’s works are an example of an immeasurable fascination for the design process, a fanatic an inspired exploration of what is possible. The work Turbo Jet Aladin (1987) is one of the many Pastille Motors he worked on. This was a series of round, flat fans ( which reminded him of aspirins, a ‘pastille’) with floating baffles, test models of drive mechanisms for his Rucksackflugs. These backpack aircrafts are part of his Portable Air Transport (P.A.T.) theme which he worked on since 1969. The Pastille Motors were one of the many steps in his research into flying as efficiently as possible, with as little fuel consumption as possible, a reaction to NASA’s wasteful design.

Every possible way a person can “fly” – over land, under water, in the sky and in outer space – is Panamarenko’s best known, though not only, subject and is the first thing to come to mind when we hear or read his name. Aeromodeller (1969 -71) which appeared in The Collection (1) | Highlights for a Future exhibition at the M.S.K., Ghent, was probably the most impressive example of this.

Smaller, but no less poetic, airships, such as the Aeromodeller (1984), emerge throughout his oeuvre and stem from the 1968 manifesto by the “Vrije Aktie Groep Antwerpen” (free action group Antwerp) of which the artist was a member. On the Conscienceplein (a square in front of the Hendrik Conscience church) of Antwerp they proposed the utopian plan for a “reserve” in which the residents would, among other things, build zeppelins allowing them to fly around freely, and in a completely safe way, Panamarenko added: filled with helium instead of hydrogen.

With his flying saucers and magnetic spaceships, Panamarenko pushed the boundary of improbability even more. From 1976 on, he became fascinated by the infamous stories that circulated from people who claimed they saw UFOs and had come into contact with extra-terrestrials. He started designing a whole series of saucers that would be able to fly with the use of magnetic force fields, as well as a number of devices that would travel through space on magnetic “cosmic motorways”.

In 2005, after the retrospective exhibition Flying saucers and Devil Rowlers Motorcycle Club at the Royal Museum for Fine Arts Brussels, Panamarenko stopped making art to live in a quieter way with his wife Eveline at their farmhouse in Michelbeke.

Panamarenko’s oeuvre is a laudable homage to human fantasy and ingenuity. Inspired by Joseph Beuys’ view on art, he refused to define “art” in a determined way, it’s the terrain that can (or should) always be in motion.

SELECTED WORKS

 Reis naar Egypte II

Reis naar Egypte II

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 Reis naar Egypte I

Reis naar Egypte I

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 Batopillo

Batopillo

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 polistes

polistes

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 Untitled (General Spinaxis)

Untitled (General Spinaxis)

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 Scotch Gambit – From Fable to Stee

Scotch Gambit – From Fable to Stee

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 Vliegend Eiland

Vliegend Eiland

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 DONNARIET

DONNARIET

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 TURBO JET ENGINE ALADIN

TURBO JET ENGINE ALADIN

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 IJSVOGEL (ICE BIRD)

IJSVOGEL (ICE BIRD)

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 EILAND

EILAND

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 BATOPILLO

BATOPILLO

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NEWS

 Artsy online viewing room | EDITIONS

Artsy online viewing room | EDITIONS

26/02/2021

Stephan Balkenhol - Lawrence Carroll - Jan Fabre - Günther Förg -  Ilja & Emilia Kabakov - Panamarenko - Jon Pilkington - Andy Wauman.

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 Opening new location at Platform 6a, Otegem (BE)

Opening new location at Platform 6a, Otegem (BE)

22/07/2020

KETELEER GALLERY is very pleased to announce the opening of its 3rd location at the new 'Platform 6a' project by Deweer.

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 Hommage to Leonardo da Vinci at Château du Rivau (FR)

Hommage to Leonardo da Vinci at Château du Rivau (FR)

29/03/2019

Fabien Mérelle, Panamarenko, Antoine Roegiers and Jan Fabre are part of the group exhibition 'Hommage to Leonardo da Vinci' at Château du Rivau, france.

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 The Collection (1), Highlights for a Future at S.M.A.K. (BE)

The Collection (1), Highlights for a Future at S.M.A.K. (BE)

13/03/2019

Guillaume Bijl, Leo Copers and Panamarenko will be part of a new group exhibition at S.M.A.K., Ghent. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, S.M.A.K. is presenting ‘The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future’.

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EXHIBITIONS

 Tribute to Panamarenko

Tribute to Panamarenko


25.03 - 24.04.2022

PLATFORM 6A

Tiegemstraat 6a - 8553 Otegem



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 Selected works from the Deweer Gallery Estate

Selected works from the Deweer Gallery Estate


03.07 - 01.08.2021

KETELEER GALLERY

Pourbusstraat 3-5 - 2000 Antwerp



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 ART ANTWERP 2021

ART ANTWERP 2021


16.12 - 19.12.2021

Antwerp Expo, Belgium

Jan van Rijswijcklaan 191, 2020 Antwerp



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 GROUP SHOW

GROUP SHOW

« Guillaume Bijl, Leo Copers, Luc Deleu & Panamarenko »
24.10 - 06.12.2020

KETELEER GALLERY

Pourbusstraat 3-5 - 2000 Antwerp



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 Opening KETELEER GALLERY | Platform 6a

Opening KETELEER GALLERY | Platform 6a


02.10 - 01.11.2020

PLATFORM 6A

Tiegemstraat 6a - 8553 Otegem



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 Group Exhibition

Group Exhibition


13.06 - 30.08.2020

KETELEER GALLERY

Pourbusstraat 3-5 - 2000 Antwerp



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 Panamarenko

Panamarenko


18.01 - 29.03.2020

Bremdonck

Bredabaan 93 - 2930 Brasschaat



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 Panamarenko

Panamarenko

« Works 1979 - 2005 »
25.03 - 07.05.2017

KETELEER

Pourbusstraat 3-5 - 2000 Antwerp



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ITEMS IN STORE

Panamarenko – Pastilles | Rugzakedities

€1500,00 incl. VAT

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