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                                                                                      musician, he would have composed  musique  concret.
                                                                                       But the musician of hells has also-one must return to
                                                                                      it-the eye of a plastic artist. In the delicate montages of
                                                                                      his first appearances, one saw, whirling around in space,
                                                                                      hung up to those crinolines of iron-which others since
                                                                                      have not waited to  imitate-the  little forms of painted
                                                                                      sheet-iron,  which  will  reassemble  in  the  Relief polv­
                                                                                      chrome  1955,  another  landmark  of  the  exhibition  of
                                                                                      today:  half  moons,  black  spikes  oscillating  here  and
                                                                                      there, plumes and spurts surging under the nose of the
                                                                                      spectator unexpectedly when he neglects  to  keep  his
                                                                                      distance-all elements operationally useless to an opera­
                                                                                      tion  itself  without  usefulness.  And  just  the  same  in
                                                                                      MK Ill or Eos, creations of 1964, much more heavy and
                                                                                      much  more  massive.  You  will  find,  for  example,  set
                                                                                      aside from the principal mechanism and taking part in
                                                                                      nothing, a little wheel which contributes absolutely to
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