Ana Linnemann (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1958). Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Master in sculpture by the Pratt Institute, Ana Linnemann employs technology as one of the drivers behind her work. The project Bead Beat, developed since 2001, exemplifies this synthesis. In that same year, the artist created an installation of the White Box gallery, in New York, which closes during summertime. Linnemann placed two pearl necklaces knocking constantly against the window of the closed gallery.
Three years later, the Fundação Vitae, in São Paulo, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, in New York, promoted the continuation of the project, which was presented again at the MAM-RJ, in 2007 The glass panels of the museum foyer were knocked to a beat determined by the pearls. The drummer Jacob Slither, from the US band Semisonic, created a song to dialogue with this movement.
In 2005, Linnemann presented at the Long Island University campus, the sculpture Um breve comentário sobre o espaço (A Brief Comment on Space), in which two Busy Lizzy plants appear every three minutes to make a ten second-long, continuous circular motion. The project The Invisibles follows the same idea, in which objects are given a small motor and seem to “live” for a few seconds, extracting an unstable poetry from the most trivial of scenes.
Master in sculpture by the Pratt Institute, Ana Linnemann employs technology as one of the drivers behind her work. The project Bead Beat, developed since 2001, exemplifies this synthesis. In that same year, the artist created an installation of the White Box gallery, in New York, which closes during summertime. Linnemann placed two pearl necklaces knocking constantly against the window of the closed gallery.
Three years later, the Fundação Vitae, in São Paulo, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, in New York, promoted the continuation of the project, which was presented again at the MAM-RJ, in 2007 The glass panels of the museum foyer were knocked to a beat determined by the pearls. The drummer Jacob Slither, from the US band Semisonic, created a song to dialogue with this movement.
In 2005, Linnemann presented at the Long Island University campus, the sculpture Um breve comentário sobre o espaço (A Brief Comment on Space), in which two Busy Lizzy plants appear every three minutes to make a ten second-long, continuous circular motion. The project The Invisibles follows the same idea, in which objects are given a small motor and seem to “live” for a few seconds, extracting an unstable poetry from the most trivial of scenes.
