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métaméchanique
sculpture
Also known as: metamatic, metamechanical
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Tinguely
- In Jean Tinguely
…kinetic sculptures, which he termed métaméchaniques, or metamechanicals. These were robotlike contraptions constructed of wire and sheet metal, the constituent parts of which moved or spun at varying speeds. Further innovations on Tinguely’s part in the mid- and late 1950s led to a series of sculptures entitled “Machines à peindre”…
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