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reality, cannot be experienced in such a
cumulative way.
In his earlier primary demonstrations of 1969
which were aimed at the relation of man to space,
Rinke always gave an exact definition of the
space in which the actions took place: all the
points were determined; centre point, axis,
diagonal line, etc., were drawn on walls and
floor with graphite. These first rudimentary
drawings were the basis for the later series of
expansion drawings, although these do not have
the closed room as a starting point but the open
space, the large expanse up to infinity.
His Expansion-circular of 1973 is an especially
vivid illustration of the correspondence of one
and the same system in visualizations which are
running parallel but seem to be optically
contradictory. The work comprises 51 drawings
in upright format and 51 photographs hanging
above these. The drawings were made on the
floor where Rinke determined an x-arbitrary
point (=zero point) to which a string with a
piece of graphite was attached. At certain
predetermined distances from the zero point
(from 1.5 millimetres to 30o metres) semi-
circles were drawn, with the graphite, on sheets

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