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Konstruktionszeichnung zur Kinetischen Plastik

Konstruktionszeichnung zur Kinetischen Plastik
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    • Sketch for Kinetic Sculpture
    • Konstruktionszeichnung zur Kinetischen Plastik
  • around 1959
  • paper collage, crayon
  • 163 x 124 cm
In its reduction and clarity, Marc Adrian’s “Kinetic Sculpture” of 1958 shows almost paradigmatically that abandonment of statically conceived sculpture in favor of kinetic objects developing in space-time, objects in which illusionary space and motion are related to perception; in this respect, overall Viennese output from this period contained virtually no parallels to Adrian’s works. In a way that is most certainly ironic, this mobile also plays with the formal inventories of a genre-transformation: with the empty picture frames and the easel, which holds their formats. It hence also stands in tongue-and-cheek opposition to the pure formalisms of late-modernist abstraction. G.S.