Page 34 - Studio International - April 1974

A more recent group of works from the years (Top left) A moment diminishes or
1972/73 are called Gravitation drawings by disappears in the medium 1972
Photo
Rinke. The projects consist of plumb-lines and (Top right) Measuring instrument for timelessness
plumb-bobs which, due to gravitation, are 1972-3
(Right) X — recurring wherever zero point is assumed
tightened to a system of lines around a 1972
predetermined point. These works also
demonstrate, in a clear progression, Rinke's read because the 6o pointers point exactly to
development process from the 'minimal' 6o seconds, i.e. the 'whole' time can be read at
initial point to more complex three-dimensional
once. If the work is studied not from the centre
structures. The first projects only use the wall,
point but towards the centre, the lines of time
they then move over the floor and finally they
appear as though they are drawn by suction.
include the space.
`The centre point is the zero point — expansion
If time means unrest, movement — standing
is time' (Rinke).
still means absolute peace, identical with
The concept of a time tunnel, of movement
timelessness. When the pendulum has stopped
in space in the dimension of time, flashes
swinging and the plumb hangs vertically,
through the mind. It can be seen as an optical
time is not obtained as a progression but as correlate to Rinke's text: a person walking
a hypothetical zero point, a 'non-time',
forward, moving in the present into the future,
comparable with the absolute peace in
leaving behind the past . . .
meditative conditions.
Rinke's work of the past two years, the
Rinke calls one of his latest works from the
systematic sequences of photographs, the
plumb experiments Measuring instrument for
expansions drawings, the graphic plumb
timelessness. It involves 6o lines with plumb
designs, reveal, in the multiplicity of media and
bobs being drawn from the centre point of a possibilities of optical experience, the
circle in all directions over 6o steel pins on the interference of only apparently different
walls, according to the second metre of a clock
structures which determine our environmental
(60 seconds=60 plumbs). The plumbs hang
and perceptive systems. q
vertically at pointed angles over the floor. The
EVELYN WEISS
system is projected into the horizontal plane
by drawing straight lines on the ground, with
graphite, starting from an oscillated centre
point (I plumb suspended from the ceiling).
It is a double clock on which no time can be
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