Page 34 - Studio International - April 1974
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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
     18o
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