gallery | spinning tops objects
Plastic planet
Axis of dividers, green plexiglas, joined ring, transparent plastic pipe,
plastic disk with red plexiglas and iron screw nuts, bone,
green plexiglas and iron srew nuts, an iron disk,three bone disks, disk
of boxwood use for the tip
Size: ca. 8 x 14 cm
This spinning top is build in three leves, which
symbolize different significant stages
of human history. The lowest of wood and bone refers to the natural
state of human beings. The middle level in the form of an iron ring refers
to the industrial age, the top ring of plastic embodies todays plastic age.
*not available any more*
I am the center of my world
Spinning top dolly, plastic bottle, different table clothes, pear wood,
and an iron spike.
Size: ca. 27 cm x 13 cm
This spinning tends to the fact that each person develops an individual
view of the world due to its cultural environment and its social experiences.
Within this world the individual act as the center of it. It is HIS/HER world
or HIS/HER capsule, emerged from HIS/HER ideals, prejudices, principles,
experiences, knowledge, etc.. Often it serves as a protection for what is
called the own identity, but sometimes the isolating effect of this capsule
prevents an unobstructed view of the world.
20th Century
Box wood – eccentric turned - plastic rings with winding string, pearls as well
as crown cork, brass disk, amboina wood, colourful plastic rings and forged
pieces of electric cable with isolation, a beverage can, pear wood, rubber
joint and a brass cover nut used as tip.
Size: ca. 21 cm x 9 cm
The spinning top is made from materials, which are typical for the last century.
The crown cork, but especially the cola can stand for the rapid increase of
consumption and the mass production after World War II in Germany. One of
the main reasons that enabled this increase were among other things new inventions
in the field of electricity. This is symbolized by the forged electric cable.
Dancing ganesha
Steel cable, glass pearls, red plexiglas, bone, wooden disk, bone, roe buck antler
with a string and red pearl, brass disk, transparent plastic disk, a CD inserted in a
peace of wood and fixed with screw nuts and bone disks, red and green plexiglas
staves, Ganesha figure from India, green plastic and a quilling from India, brass ring
with drilled in bone pieces and red plastic, on the bottom side red and green pearls,
the magnet of a speaker, the tip is made of bone and a nail.
Size: ca. 10 x 14 cm
This spinning top depicts the Hindu god Ganesha, who is among many other things
also the god of music, dance, poetry and literature. A tribute to human leisure.
*not available any more*
Silver Age
Hand turned brass handle, red plastic ring, golfball, forged silver, brass rings,
washer, small wheel of a dividers.
Size: ca. 16 cm x 10,5 cm
The spinning top symbolizes the contrast to the metaphor of the "Golden Age",
which includes a cultural heyday. The Silver Age, however, is characterized
by cold and simplicity. Thats why various metals such as brass, silver
and iron are used. It may give a foreshadowing of a possible cultural decay.
Home sweet home
Paint brush, turned plastic, sprayed table cloth, Lid of paint pot,
wooden disk, knurling, table clothes, old enameled lamp shade
from a 100 years old farm house in Slovenia, chemical foam spray
can with a nail as tip
Size: ca. 28 cm x 20 cm
All the materials of this spinning top have something to do with
the renovation of an old farmhouse in Slovenia, which Armin Kolb
bought in 2009. Some of the items were needed during the renovation
process, others are finds from the ancient buildings in Slovenia.
*not available any more*
I hit a bird at the golf course
African Blackwood – partly eccentric turned – Bird feathers from a budgie,
brass ring, golfball, the tip is again African Blackwood
Size: ca. 14 cm x 6 cm
Every beginning is difficult. Especially when playing golf.
Sometimes the ball is wide of the mark and hits something else...
*not available any more*
The wasp
Pearls, boxwood with a joined iron ring and „flying insects“ (black pearls,
quillings from India, red string as well as bristles from a porcupine from Italy),
disks of an angle grinder combined with so called „twist-off” lids.
Size: ca. 30 cm x 18 cm
The main theme is the concept of aggression. This is expressed by disks of an
angle grinder, which can cut aggressively through hard materials such as concrete
or iron. The combination of the angle grinder discs with the twist-off lids
is reminiscent of the abdomen of a wasp, which is also known for its aggressive
behaviour. Also the spiky bristles of the porcupine touch aspects of aggression.
they are used for its self-defense.
Meine gefiederten Freunde
African blackwood, silver 835/-, feathers, glas beads and bone
Size: ca. 10 x 20 cm
-partly carved and ornamental turned-
*not available any more*
Ceremonial spinning top
French walnut, amaranth, pigments, bamboo, australian grastree and feathers
Ash -burned and coloured-
Size of top: ca. 12 x 22 cm
Size of the plate: ca. 34 cm
*not available any more*
Double stick top
Beech, plumwood, pigments, printed images on silk paper
Size of the basement: ca. 10 x 10 xm
Size of the top: ca. 10 x 7 cm
