Jean Tinguely paid tribute to the formal language of abstract avant-garde with his meta-mechanical sculpture in 1955. Presented the same year in the exhibition Le Mouvement at the Denise René Gallery, alongside works by Vasarely and Alexander Calder, Méta-Herbin goes beyond the static state of painting. Powered by a motor, it constantly reconfigures the space with its subtle play of shape and colour, similar to Calder’s mobiles, whose metal elements move depending on the motion of the air.