Méta harmony II

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The Méta-Harmonie II is a mobile scrap iron sculpture by Jean Tinguely . It was created in 1979 after the success of Méta-Harmonie I , which was exhibited in Basel in 1978 and sold to the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna . Tinguely therefore needed a new version for a major exhibition in Frankfurt .

It has a size of 380 × 690 × 160 cm and is therefore slightly larger in construction than its predecessor. However, it has the same mobile frames that are used to suspend and fasten the wheels, axles, rods, instruments and objects and give the work its transparent, relief-like character.

Tinguely called these structures “sound mixing machines” and wanted the visitor to discover and record the individual acoustic surprises step by step as they walk around the machine. The artist preferred percussion instruments as a sound generator. Here he recorded the same accidental hammer blows as he had already used in his reliefs Méta-mécaniques sonores 1955. The speed of the wheel turns determines the rhythm of the beats, resulting in an ever-changing sound, similar to the ever-changing constellations of shapes in the polychrome reliefs of the 1950s.

The machine is owned by the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and stood for a long time as a deposit in the stairwell of the Kunstmuseum Basel . In 2000 it was exhibited on the occasion of the exhibition "L'esprit de Tinguely" at the Wolfsburg Art Museum. It is now in the Museum Tinguely in Basel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b L'esprit de Tinguely. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg from May 20 to October 3, 2000. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000. ISBN 3-7757-0931-2 . P. 369.

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