Experiencing kinetic art is as easy as turning on a lightbulb at the Dallas Museum of Art’s immersive exhibition, Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism, now on view through July 16.
Patrons enter the exhibition by walking through Brazilian artist Valeska Soares’ 2006 installation of Vagalume (Firefly), a series of overhead lightbulbs patrons can turn on and off by pulling on one of the hundreds of pull chains.
“It is an amazing experiential artwork that captures a childlike imagination. She was really inspired by the simple act of turning the light on and off when she was a kid and the flickering that it created like a firefly. But she was also playing with art historical legacy within Brazil,” said Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the museum’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and organizer of this exhibition.
The installation is one of 80 works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection that uses optical effects of mechanical or manipulable parts to engage the viewer physically or perceptually. By combining two-dimensional paintings, three-dimensional sculptures, projections and interactive objects, the exhibition features artwork from three historical periods spanning a century.
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