Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) Report on Jean Tinguely's Méta-Matics exhibition at Galerie Iris Clert. Paris, July 1959. Public operating drawing machines. Drawings. Seven (7) vintage silver prints. Stamped "Photo Robert Doisneau" on versos. Sizes : 17.5 x 21.7 to 18 x 23.5 cm Bibliography : Point de vue. Images du monde, July 1959. In the summer of 1959, the Parisian gallery Iris Clert presented several of Jean Tinguely's drawing machines at a resounding exhibition promoted by sandwich men and widely distributed bilingual flyers. These Meta-Matics - both sculptures and mobile devices housing pencils and sheets of paper - produce unique graphic objects, the fruit of interaction between the operator and the possibilities offered by these unstable mechanisms. Among the visitors encouraged to use the machines were numerous artists - including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, Eugène Ionesco and Hans Hartung - who lent themselves to the game of a creative act with multiple authorship. The event was so successful (almost 4,000 drawings were produced by over 6,000 visitors in just a few weeks) that the very popular magazine Point de Vue. Images du Monde devoted a double-page spread to the event, illustrated with photographs by Robert Doisneau, in its July issue.