Manchester. Kinetic art, new media art.

Paul Friedlander is a physicist and sculptor of kinetic lighting. During his childhood he was fascinated by space travel and astronomy. He grew up in Cambridge surrounded by ideas about relativity and black holes, and for a time aspired to be a cosmologist and expert on interstellar propulsion.

Friedlander has spent more than two decades researching all kinds of technologies and procedures in order to make light a malleable and flexible material that can acquire any shape and volume, developing a career at the crossroads between art, science and technology, for what his work is situated in a hybrid space.

On the one hand, his production rests on the broad tradition of 20th century kinetic art, which he does not hesitate to vindicate. In fact, it is highly influenced by the work of artists such as László Moholy-Nagy, Flavin or Turrell. His "kinetic light sculptures" are generated thanks to the use of computer lighting control systems to highlight the impression of incorporation and dynamism of his sculptures. Their names often refer to different aspects of modern science, from quantum physics to string theory. However, his aesthetic construction and the reception of his work by his viewers inevitably refers to the spiritual and the magical. After all, the physical elements on which Friedlander's sculptures are based are hidden by the mystery of a basic but striking optical effect.

Furthermore, the Briton cannot dissociate his career from the discipline of large-scale stage lighting in which he began his career and which has been a decisive factor in the development of lighting technology in recent decades. His work is an example of how scientific research can expand the expressive vocabulary of artists today, to allow them to model physical reality and create images that before we would have thought possible only in the realm of imagination and dreams.

His characteristic style began to become evident in the eighties, during his time as a light designer for avant-garde music concerts, and later he specialized in creating light art combining kinetic digital technology, to create hybrid art forms. < / p>

The works of Paul Friedlander have been shown in various ArtFutura in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Montevideo. as well as in the exhibition “Máquinas & Almas” (Museo de Arte Moderno Reina Sofía in Madrid 2008) and in “Criaturas Digitales” (Rome 2017).