Didier Walter

Who is Didier Walter?

Didier Walter is a French kinetic sculptor.

He was first influenced by Alexander Calder and invented 'mobiles'. Watching for the first time 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, Didier Walter discovered a new experimental field with its minimal and spatial conception of kinetic art. He thus created his masterpiece 2001, around 1994, paying tribute to Kubrick and succeeding in recreating through the movement of the kinetic sculpture the aesthetics of floating in the film.

His most active period was between 1989 and 1995.

DIDIER WALTER

Born on April 4, 1959 of parents storekeepers. General practitioner becomes. Open his workshop in Paris in 1987. Begins his collection of mobile sculptures by 1989 March 25, 1995 disappears. A falling star of the modern art of the mobile sculptures.

Didier Walter's quotation in 1993: "I work sculpture for four years now, but of nobody cannot say how many years of previous preparation I needed to begin to work. I am 34 years old and am seriously supported by my assistant Marcello Morra. He brought me an indispensable technical support in the realization of sculptures. These sculptures, what are they? Closed and completely hermetic monolithic blocks in the curiosity of the spectator, the often very impressive dimensions. These blocks are in movement around often invisible axes which are sometimes ropes of steel tightened between masts of stainless steel of height going to 6 meters giving them this strange impression of floating. Monoliths, articulating some on the others, engender a complex movement, always renewed, and thus unexpected.”