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"... 'meta-mechanical paintings', reliefs of a kind, in which simple geometrical
shapes painted in the primary colours move about slowly in front of a surface.
(. . .) It is theoretically possible to calculate the periodicity of the reliefs.
One of them, for instance, ought to repeat the same configuration after about
a year, if it ran continuously. But the couplings slip a bit; as a result, the
shapes might reach the same position already after two months, or it might not
happen for hundreds of years."
Hultén, 1955, p. 26.
"I am an artist of movement. Initially I did painting
but I got blocked there, I found myself stuck. I was handicapped
by the whole history of art and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. I
got hung up in the pictures, on the pictures – finally
all I could do is wait until they were tired; I could never find their end. So
I decided to introduce movement. I started from Constructivist elements, taken
from the vocabulary of the Russian Suprematist painter Malevich, and from Kandinsky
and Arp and a few others. I re-used their elements and set them in motion. I
was trying to get away from the imperative, the power of these artists, also
from Mondrian. I began to use movement simply to make a re-creation. It was a
way of re-doing a painting so that it would become infinite – it would go
on making new compositions by means of the physical and mechanical movements
that I gave it."
". . . puisque le tableau ne se laisse pas terminer,
il n'y a qu'à le rendre interminable. Interminable
parce que mis en mouvement, et par là perpétuellement
recombiné, jamais plus le même, jamais plus "pétrifié" en
lui-même. (. . .) Le principe de mise en œuvre sera
simple. On peut le résumer ainsi: j'hésitais
entre plusieurs configurations, le mouvement va me les donner
toutes. Il suffira de découper dans la tôle des
formes simples, et de les faire tourner indépendamment
en les plaçant sur des axes entraînés par
un moteur."
Michel Conil Lacoste, 1989, p. 14.
References
Michel Conil Lacoste: Tinguely. L'Énergétique
de l'Insolence. Vol. I. Paris: Éditions de la
Différence, 1989.
Karl G. Hultén: Den Ställföreträdande
Friheten eller Om Rörelse i Konsten och Tinguelys
Metamekanik. (Substitute Freedom or On Movement in
Art and Tinguely's Meta-mechanics.) Special issue of Kasark, October
1955. [English translation in: Pontus Hultén, 1975.]
K.G. Pontus Hultén: Tinguely.
'Méta'. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.
Pontus Hulten: Jean Tinguely. A Magic Stronger than Death. New
York: Abbeville Press, 1987.
Jean Tinguely: Radio Conversation, Radio
Télévision Belge, Brussels, 13 December 1982.
[In: Hulten 1987, p. 350.]
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