New Zero
Exhibiton View
Piero Manzoni / John Nixon
Henk Peeters
Jef Verheyen
Jean Tinguely
Martial Rayisse
Jesus Rafael Soto
Jesus Rafael Soto
Vibration, 1962
Oil on wood, metal
verso by the artist "pour Peeters"
56,2 x 45,2 x 8,1 cm
Jesus Rafael Soto wanted to create an art that changed through the movement of the viewer, intended to make the latter perceive that the movement of the picture is his or her movement as well.
Structures at rest were meaningless for Soto and the kinetics. "Things that are at rest immediately abandon the valididty of their being, which is tied to the moment. The balance of everything that is alive comes into being only in a state of constant change.
Soto's images do not move of their own accord, they derive their movement from the viewer. His structures are still surfaces and quiet compositions, but put together with movement in mind. They are related to each other in a deliberate behaviour pattern. A line, a dot, a structure of lines, a circling structure do not make their presence felt until he applies the behaviour pattern of structures, brings it into play, sets in motion. They are kinetic structures only when executed to life." (Paul Wember, 1963)