Les sculptures en câbles d'antenne coaxial Kissing Circles sont une interpretation du cercle géométrique dans une poésie virtuelle. Fasciné par la forme du cercle et du théorème de Descartes sur les cercles tangents, mounir fatmi a créé cette série de pièce à travers une interprétation de ces cercles par Frederick Soddy dans son poème "Le baiser précis". Pour mounir fatmi, la forme du cercle passe de la géométrie au spirituel et fonctionne comme une illusion de de déplacement dans l'espace et le temps. C'est tourner autour et se perdre dans une illusion optique. |
The sculptures in coaxial antenna cables Kissing Circles are an interpretation of the geometric circle in a virtual poetry. Fascinated by the shape of the circle and the Descartes theorem on tangent circles, mounir fatmi created this body of work through an interpertration by Frederick Soddy of those circles in his poem « The Kissing precise ». For mounir fatmi, the circular shape goes from geometry to the spiritual and function as an illusion of displacement in space and time. It is about turning around and get lost in a kinetic illusion.
The Kissing precise
For pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
'Tis not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally.
Four circles to the kissing come.
The smaller are the benter.
The bend is just the inverse of
The distance from the center.
Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb
There's now no need for rule of thumb.
Since zero bend's a dead straight line
And concave bends have minus sign,
The sum of the squares of all four bends
Is half the square of their sum.
To spy out spherical affairs
An oscular surveyor
Might find the task laborious,
The sphere is much the gayer,
And now besides the pair of pairs
A fifth sphere in the kissing shares.
Yet, signs and zero as before,
For each to kiss the other four
The square of the sum of all five bends
Is thrice the sum of their squares.
Frederick Soddy, British radio-chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921
In Nature, June 20, 1936 |
