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Andy by Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes painted a gallery with works by Andy Warhol based on the principle of the inverted space or the hollow mask. As you walk by, the picture changes its appearance. If you take a closer look, you will come across the “trick”.
RheinMainTV contribution to EXPLORA Science Center
EXPLORA TV report shows the Science Center in the north end of Frankfurt
Goethe 2010 in Hollywood
“Goethe 2010” is an oil painting by the Frankfurt painter BaerenzCao based on the work “Goethe in the Campagna” by the painter Johann Friedrich Tischbein (1751-1829), that is on exhibition in the Städelmuseum in Frankfurt. Everyone in Frankfurt knows and loves this painting. BaerenzCao moves the scenery into the Hollywood hills with optical illusions, Anamorphoses, Rubin Vase, 3D anaglyphs, ambiguous pictures and QRcodes.
Santana Plattencover
In the LP record cover of Santana 12 ambiguous pictures are said to be hidden. Museum director Stief can show 11 – can you find the twelfth picture puzzle?
Impossible mathematical figures in EXPLORA
Jos de Mey’s pictures always quote from his surroundings and pictures from other artists. He uses the stylistic device of the impossible mathematical figure to give the brain something to play with. Can you find the owl in all of his pictures? Peter Breughel’s peasant dance and an “Escher” figure with an owl and Magritte’s clouds.
Napier Rods explained
GOStief explains the Napier Rods in the EXPLORA Science Center in Frankfurt. Calculates faster than a calculator.
Normarilyn by Hans Hamngren in the EXPLORA
Normarilyn by Hans Hamngren is a pyramid amorphosis. If you stand over the top of the pyramid, you can see what is hidden in the picture. The individual parts of the picture come together in the reflecting surfaces to form a whole. The picture has already been exhibited in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Stockholm and Tokyo.
Chinese singing bowl in the EXPLORA Science Center
The bronze water sound bowl bridges chemistry and physics with a hands-on experiment. Wet your paws and rub your fins over the handles. If you do it slowly and with resistance, according to Christian Huygens’ law of physics, the bowl will begin to vibrate and make the water bubble. Here, wave crests strengthen or double, while a wave trough and a wave crest cancel each other out. An electrifying experiment.
Helix
It was a world sensation when the HELIX in Frankfurt’s Explora could be set in motion for three minutes with a phone call from all corners of the world. Now the object has been installed at the 3rd Dimension Museum in Dinkelsbühl.
Dinkelsbühler Karpfen, Interferenz
The Dinkelsbuehl Karp is a specially cultivated fish with a unique shape. While moving the object at the front door of the Museum 3. Dimension in Dinkelsbuehl at the Romantic Road the fins and tail react. Enjoy the hands-on vertical interference.
Wind Turbine
VAWT
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
6 Aerofoils are mounted in an H shaped Darrieus system.
on a moving truck.
Explora-Museum in the Frankfurter Glauburgbunker
The Frankfurt Explora Museum in the Glauburgbunker is dedicated to three-dimensional art and various illusions in a unique way. Museum founder and bunker resident Gerhard Stief has been collecting great exhibits from all over the world for decades.
Hen's Market
The ugly post war Rathaus from the seventies
was torn down to make place for a medieval
reconstruction of Frankfurt’s
Altstadt (old city). The hen’s market was the center of the coronation path (krönungsweg).
Together with the famous painter BaerenzCao we constructed a huge inverted model for the DomRömerAG
Kulturcheck
The Explora-Director / collector is interviewed by Katrin Krämer. He unveils his future plans und talks about posibilities to enlarge the WW 2 bunker.