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Item: Vogelmarkt [Bird Market]

2004

Installation, 200 x 250 x 100 cm.
Materials: installation with three tables with sunshade, three walking chickens

Collection: Private Collection.

Panamarenko built this poetic installation consisting of three tables with a sunshade as the stage on which to demonstrate three walking chickens. The three brightly coloured birds were fitted with a small electric motor driven by a battery. The
mechanism used to make the chickens walk refers back to Crooked Leg from 1994.

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Panamarenko
The Belgian artist Panamarenko (pseudonym of Henri Van Herwegen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1955 to 1960 but just as

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