Franz John

One of Franz John’s motivations for making art, is to understand the world better. At his studio, one can find models of primordial oceans, a telescope he once built, earthquake detectors, camera obscura photographs, and small Grätzel cells. These are the main focus of our interest this afternoon. They can generate energy by the same principle as plants do. After he explained how they work, we wonder why we don’t learn more from the plants, the insects and other living beings.