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Open Form: Do It Yourself Sculpture

[pieces intended to be constructed or rearranged at will by the spectator, the collector, or the curator]


John McHale:

Construction kits for building small
constructivist sculptures (ca. 1954).

  



Bruno Munari:

Struttura Continua, 1958 (16 elements);

Struttura Continua, 1961 (8 elements).

    

Jean Tinguely:

Undetermined Constant, 1960.

[Rotating clamp. Arbitrary objects can be attached.]

  



Nicolas Schöffer:

Lux 14, 1974.

(Sculpture à Éléments Combinables.)