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(Left) To look through the format . . . they fill the picture almost completely, then they observer perceives the concepts of 'coming' and
From the horizontal and vertical comes move further and further away until they are `going', there from the front to the back, here
a diagonal 1972
(Above) Two diagonals 1972 almost invisible. At 30o m the artist turns from left to right. This sequence also starts at
around and the progression starts in the reverse zero (=empty picture), becomes condensed at
of paper placed on the ground; in the first sense. The picture that has 'moved away' is now the centre and ends in a white field again. The
phases the semi-circles appeared as almost returning; these are actions of 'coming' and work is based on a group of eleven photographs
invisible points. The progression is at the same `going' in the truest sense of the word, although plus two empty pictures, as they appear in the
time a diagram for speed developing slowly and in our everyday field of experience the actions lower horizontal series. The same photographs
with difficulty (see the numerous initial near- are again mirror-inverted: 'going' (=departing) are then arranged vertically — see the vertical
white sheets) and increasing explosively is illustrated by the legs turned towards us, series of pictures on the right. The system is
(acceleration). The progression is based on the `coming' (=approaching) by the legs turned continued until a triangle develops with its
following numerical scheme: away from us. The series of drawings and hypotenuse representing the zero line
1.5 mm, 3 mm, 5 mm, 7.5 mm, I cm, I .5 cm, photographs are complementary but also show (=diagonal line of empty fields). The left-hand
3 cm, 5 cm, 7.5 cm, 10 cm, 15 cm, 30 cm, so cm, certain discrepancies. At the centre point where part of the work is also based on the upper
75 cm, m, I .5 m, 3 m, 5 m, 7.5 m, 10 in, 15 m, the graphite drawings reach the greatest density horizontal and lateral vertical series of pictures,
3o m, 5o m, 75 m, 100 m, 150 m, 300 m. and intensity of the field, the picture of the which are now arranged in reversed order. The
For this last distance the circle on the sheet of photographic illustration appears almost empty. numerical scheme is as follows:
paper of identical format appears as straight There are, no doubt, various ways of realizing
black area. Now the progression starts in the the 'expansion-circular' : by shading, light
reverse sense, based on the same numerical frequencies, quantity additions, etc. Rinke
scheme. The drawings are identical with the exemplifies: the structures according to which
previous ones but appear as min or inversions. our existence-context is coordinated and
The optical illusion of a convex-concave according to which we perceive things, are
system develops. The series of photographs running parallel and are, in the end effect,
arranged above represents the same system in a identical.
different medium. The points of progression, Closely linked with this work is the
instead of being marked on the ground by photographic series Going through the format of
graphite, are captured photographically through 1972, which also evokes the conception of a
each of the artist's standpoints, i.e. through his progression in time and motion by a static
legs. In the first picture the feet are very close, sequence of pictures. As in the 'expansion' the
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