Jean Tinguely: Water-machines sculpture, sprinklers gone wild
June 21, 2006 | Edward Tufte
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Here’s a delightful sculpture Fasnachtsbrunnen (1977), the Carnival Fountain, by Jean Tinguely, as photographed last week in Basel:
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Do the sprinklers interact? (as in one sprinkler setting off some kind of a trigger – perhaps as simple as a toilet-type valve – which starts or stops another? A few years ago I saw several works by an artist who had balls rolling/bouncing/flying through a 3-dimensional wire maze with random elements in which accumulated balls in a trap would trigger other ball actions. It was great fun to watch.
Reminds me of the mad cycles invented by Wilf Lunn, star of seminal UK TV pro gramme Vision On.
http://www.wilflunn.com/cycles.htm#