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After the exhibition ‘Empathic Systems’ at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2019), AKINCI is proud to present the moving animals of artist - inventor Theo Jansen (The Hague, 1948). Theo Jansen is known for his beach animals: large kinetic sculptures, made almost entirely out of PVC pipes. Jansen’s creatures are reminiscent of archaic skeletons that live aesthetically somewhere between biomorphic and inorganic forms of growth. AKINCI shows three beach animals as well as drawings and ‘fossils’, to provide insight into the exceptional combination of emotional expressiveness and technology Theo Jansen …