Elias Crespin
Elias Crespin (born 1965) is a Venezuelan kinetic artist. Crespin is known for his moving, motorized sculptures, made of series of suspended geometric elements that slowly evolve and unfold in the air. He lives in Paris. Career

L'Onde du Midi 
In 2019 he was commissioned by Jean-Luc Martinez, director of the Louvre Museum, Paris, to create a sculpture. This followed commissions to Georges Braque, Anselm Kiefer, Cy Twombly, and François Morellet. In January 2020, L'Onde du Midi was inaugurated, hovering over 19th century stairs on the North side of the Louvre Colonnade. The work is a succession of 128 aluminium tubes, painted blue, that undulates from order to chaos following an algorithmic choreography. Early life 
He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He started his career as an engineer and informatician. In 2000, he began experimenting with algorithms and motors to create "electrokinetic" sculptures. These led to his first piece, Malla electrocinética, in 2002. In 2008, he moved to Paris. Bibliography 
His works feature in permanent collections such as the Louvre, the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, El Museo del Barrio in New York, the MALBA in Buenos Aires, or the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Exhibition catalogues 
 Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries, under the direction of Peter Weiermair, ZKM Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021 ISBN 9780262044868, 0262044862
 Artistes & Robots, under the direction of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and Jérôme Neutres, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2018 ISBN 9782711871094, 2711871096
 The Urge to create Visions...1929-2017, Center of Polish Sculpture, Radom, Poland, 2017
 De Nature en Sculpture, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 2017
 Slow Motion, Maison de l’Amérique Latine / Editions Hermann, Paris, France, 2017
 Geometrische Choreographien, Das Kleine Museum : Weissenstadt, Germany, 2015
 Elias Crespin, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France, 2014
 Elias Crespin. Temps suspendu, Galerie de la Marine, Nice, France, 2014
 Elias Crespin. Parallels, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York, NY, USA, 2012
 Elias Crespin. Hiperficies, Ars Longa, Paris, France, 2010
 Dynamo. Un siècle de mouvement et lumière dans l'art. 1913-2013, under the direction of Serge Lemoine, RMN, Paris, France, 2013 ISBN 9782711860500, 2711860507
 Turbulences II, Fondation Boghossian / Espace culturel Louis-Vuitton, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
 Turbulences'', Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, 2012

References 

1965 births
Living people