MICROTIME SCULPTURES (1968 - 1969)

The scientific background:

Between the moment an image hits one's eye and the moment it is consciously perceived : 1/30 000 second...

... during this microlength of time ("microtime") ...

 

The assumption:

Is it possible to have an influence on this time ? To aesthetize it ? To improve it ? To crack the length of time ? To get out of time ?

The sculptures:

Black neutral boxes where stainless steel discs, conchs and plates are moved by programmed electric motors and reflect a lot of coloured lights, some of which can be pulsed, giving a dynamic and aesthetic, powerful and unrepetitive show.

The effects:

Beautiful... fascinating... dynamizing... !

A lot of sleeping neurons in our brain cortex... awake... live forever... and will be useful some other way...

It's good... refreshing... revivifying... revitalizing... like a (brain) massage... !

You can see a Nicolas Schöffer 's Microtime sculpture
in the display window of JGM Galerie
8, bis rue Jacques Callot,
75006 PARIS - France

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