'One Hundred Views of a Metagon': Notes: Unpublished
On paper projects
the last three deliveries of 25, 26 and 27 views, have been completed (July'98)
and a BAT prepared.
two other and smaller series --one of ten (July'98), another of
twenty one (Sep'98) related but larger prints, have been completed and BAT prepared.
On the web, essays and trials
...new works result, altogether original and faithful tribute to the spirit
of Max Bill's inspiring series, all meta-variations of the 'single theme'. most
are born from mathematical programming, and some are found objects, plays or
winks to the whole idea:
(1) t16, t4-nan,
t64, t64-sand,
t12-sand,
(2) v1c12, v1c12a-ink,
v9a18, v15a7,
v16-5-5,
(3) v16a-7-7, v16b-6-6,
v16b-4-12, ,
v6c-9-9,
(4) v6c-16-6, v15d16-7,
v6d9-17, v6d6-11,
v6e11-13,
(5) v6de9-13, v6dc24-13,
v16-13-13, v15d16-9,
v6de11-11,
(6) v17-13-17, v18-13-17,
v19-13, v20-17,
v21-12,
(7) v22-5, v23-47,
v23-17, v22a6,
v22a4,
(8) v22b4, v22c4-clip,
v22c12, v22c17,
v6df-clip,
(9) v13a-10, v13a-12,
v13a-4.1, v13a-4.2,
t9-by-hand,
(10) v-am-7, v-ja-5,
v-ek-11, v15a7-ink,
v1g17,
(11) v6eggs-17-17, v6eggx-17-17,
v6eggy-17-17, v6eggz-17-17,
v6eggz-17-29,
(12) v6egz-29-29, v6eggz-11-37,
v16d-17-17.11, v16egs,
v16eggs,
(13) v16fgs, v-rl-11,
v-k101, v-k164,
v-k184,
(14) v-k187, v-k191,
v-k192, v-k210,
v-k227,
(15) v-disegno, v-still-7,
v-mifmab, wR-8,
v-voro-11c,
(16) v-voro-23g, v-voro-23l,
v-voro-37, max-buche-de-noel,
mbv-kb1.jpg,
(17) mbv-kb2.jpg, mbv-kb3.jpg,
mbv-kb4.jpg, v-k258,
metavincent1.
(18) metavincent2, .
[work in progress: 86 as of Jun'99].
![wR-8](../studio/a-m/"mbvwR-8.s.jpg){kind=link}
soon , there will be up to one hundred views of a single theme...
we note that all these views, emulating the fifteen variations, would
please us much more if they too, came accompanied by their own synopsis
so that we understand each better; they eventually will.
many of these raw
images, once polished and brought up to printing size and resolution,
are definitely bold and striking, and encourage matching prints in
small groups in many ways.
further, these exploration facilities can be applied to different
themes and thus extend the principles set forth by Max Bill to
distinctly new realms of creation.
other extensions, citations or synthesis of works of art have happened before, witness Jean Tinguely's meta sculptures, and especially the meta-malevitch and meta-kandinsky mechanical series (1955-56), or Michael Noll's Computer Composition with Lines series (1965). some of these are waiting to be challenged from the software side. in the hundred views series a few meta-metas compound the game, visual puns, digital "a la" Josef Albers, Elsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Pietr Mondrian and Roy Lichstenstein. there is also a time piece with Pietr Mondrian kinship but Max Bill's theme soul (or rather, its anima) and even a coloured-time piece (look versus feel: the very familiar Mondrian style overwhelms the more secret Bill rhythm).
Relevant reading
chapter twelve of "Methamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of
Mind and Pattern" by Douglas Hoffstadter (Basic Books 1985): "Variations on a
Theme as the Crux of Creativity, is clearly on topic, as well as chapter
thirteen: "Metafont, Metamathematics and Metaphysics...".
Sand etching
"A Metagonal Spiral".
