Sistemas mecanicos

Luis Cortés

06/05/81. (Sala 070)

From 6 – 23 May 1981

In the middle of the room a large rectangular table with a railing contained the objects, or mechanical systems, that swarmed in all directions in a random and uncontrollable manner. On opening day, Luis Cortés and his friends Javier Mariscal and Miquel Barceló, wearing scientists’ white coats and carrying a long cane, were busy rescuing and replenishing the batteries of those that ran out of movement. 

These battery-powered systems, sometimes with wheels, worked by vibration. Cortés used all kinds of materials, metal, cardboard, cork, plastic, wood, methacrylate, even the novel colored LEDs. With zero technology he managed to give movement and personality to all the objects.

A painted cork ball, called Isabel, 15 cm in diameter with a protruding aluminum tube, moved freely and, according to Cortés, “wrote in all languages”.

VARTA batteries were able to move all the objects during the course of the exhibition.

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