M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

K2. The 7000-Meter High Flying Jungle and Mountain Machine , 1991

Object, 90 x 215 x 330 cm .

Courtesy Deweer Gallery Archives, Otegem, Belgium

Collection: Courtesy The Deweer Collection, Otegem.

'It had to be something without propellers, without wings, so as  not to collide with anything.  I though of a kind of air pillow, of sorts...' - Panamarenko

Following the poetic Prova Car in 1967 and the Polistes racing car in 1975, Panamarenko started to build a hover car in 1991. The idea arose during a trip to Peru in September 1990, when he decided to make a hover car to fly between the trees: a flying machine without rotor blades or wings. K2 has a polystyrene body shaped like a rectangular inflatable mattress with rounded corners, an open cockpit with a Plexiglas windscreen in the middle, and four Kevlar fans in the corners. The machine is powered using the same principle as his flying rucksacks: several propellers consisting of two blades, each encased in a separate housing, deliver powerful air displacement via nozzles. The driver controls the speed of the central engine using a joystick. The four propellers, which suck in air and then blow it out again via the four
curved nozzles, are located to the left and right, front and rear of the vehicle. The nozzles also act like a fender to shield the propeller blades.

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Panamarenko Universum. M HKA, Antwerpen, 03 October 2014 - 29 March 2015.

> Ensemble: Furkapas.

> Ensemble: R.p.M..

Related Items

> Panamarenko, Prova Car, 1967.Object, tin, cellophane, 95 x 200 x 290 cm.

> Panamarenko, K2. The 7000-Meter High Flying Jungle and Mountain Machine,along the yellow banks in China discovering a giant Tillania flower, 1992.Print, offset, chinese paper, 24 x 18 cm.

>Hans Theys, Panamarenko - Building K2, Furka Pass [video], 1990.Video, 00:10:10.