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vibratile

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vi·bra·tile  (vbr-tl, -tl)
adj.
1. Characterized by vibration.
2. Capable of or adapted to vibratory motion.

[French, from Latin vibrtus, past participle of vibrre, to vibrate; see vibrate.]

vibra·tili·ty (-tl-t) n.


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Working as an abstract sculptor during the 1930s, a period that saw a return to figuration, Melotti radically changed the language of traditional sculpture, eliminating its weight in aerial metal constructions that appear threadlike and vibratile.
Tout le mystere est la: etablir les identites secretes par un deux a deux qui ronge et use les objets, au nom d'une centrale purete", a partir de laquelle s'organiseraient le deploiement vibratile et la circularite du sens.
The visitor to "Force Fields" enters the exhibition by moving through Jesus Rafael Soto's Penetrable, thousands of thin plastic tubes hung from the ceiling (a re-creation, in fact, of the artist's great invention of the late '60s): The room's atmosphere becomes vibratile, and one is transformed into a passerby from Boccioni's States of Mind: Those Who Stay, walking through solidified rain.
 
 
 
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