Jo Niemeyer

Statement

Working in art and mathematics offers me endless inspiring possibilities and thus contains extremely exciting connections between seemingly strange, opposite worlds. In which, in the spirit of Concrete Art, the pure expression of mathematical concepts and their laws can be visually experienced and concretized. Systems are ordered and, with artistic means, give these orders their own aesthetic...

Artworks

By means of a very simple mechanism (belt drive transmission), the two elements are continuously rotated in the ratio of the golden section. Due to the irrationality of the golden number Phi (1: 1.618..) every constellation is unique. It never repeats after an infinite number of rotations. An attempt to visualize "uniqueness" and "infinity" in a Kinetic Construction…