Liliane Lijn
Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire   1968

170 x 122 cm base diameter

Perspex letters on fibreglass cone, motorized turntable, text Liliane Lijn.

Commissioned for Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918: A Celebration, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1968.

At the time I worked a great deal with numbers. All the proportions of the cones were carefully worked out and corresponded to the Golden rule, although I was not aware of the actual formula for it at the time and came to it by myself.