Renewable energy sculpture

A renewable energy sculpture is a sculpture that produces power from renewable sources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric or tidal.

"Menina", a wind turbine sculpture model by artist Elena Paroucheva

Such a sculpture is functionally both a renewable energy generator and an artwork, fulfilling utilitarian, aesthetic, and cultural functions. The idea of renewable energy sculptures has been pioneered by ecofuturist visionaries such as artists Patrice Stellest, Sarah Hall, Julian H. Scaff, Patrick Marold, Elena Paroucheva, architects Laurie Chetwood and Nicholas Grimshaw, University of Illinois professor Bil Becket, and collaborations such as the Land Art Generator Initiative. Echoing the philosophy of the environmental art movement as a whole, artists creating renewable energy sculpture believe that the aesthetics of the artworks are inextricably linked to their ecological function.

See also

Further reading
  • The Art Gallery of Renewable Energy, http://www.lope.ca/artrenewable/index.html
  • Izzy Fraser-Underhill, Aeolian art for a more beautiful landscape, Electrical tester, copyright 2015
  • Kastner, Jeffrey, Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon, copyright 2005
  • Grande, John K., Balance: Art and Nature, Black Rose Books, NY, copyright 1994
  • Grande, John K., Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists, State University of New York Press, copyright 2004
  • Strewlow, Heike, Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice, Birhäuser Basel, copyright 2004
  • Koh, Rachel; Monoian, Elizabeth; Ferry, Robert, The Time is Now: Public Art of the Sustainable City, Land Art Generator Initiative, Page One Publishing, copyright 2012
  • Monoian, Ferry, Klein, Regenerative Infrastructures: Land Art Generator Initiative, Prestel Publishing, copyright 2013
  • Monoian, Elizabeth; Ferry, Robert, New Energies: Land Art Generator Initiative, Prestel Publishing, copyright 2014
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