Photos: El Tono and Momo at Anonymous in NYC.

Momo and El Tono installing kinetic sculptures in the waterways around Manhattan. (Image courtesy of Momo.)

Two of street art’s more cerebral practitioners — El Tono (who is based in Spain) and Momo (NYC) — have an exhibit up at the brand spankin’ new Anonymous Gallery that combines kinetic sculpture with geometric abstraction with incandescent colors, stirred up by a little randomness to keep things interesting. The pieces on show include a wall full of geometric prints that were randomly generated by computer code (El Tono has some behind-the-scenes), a series of assemblages produced by throwing shapes into the water around Manhattan to see what turned up, as well as numerous prototypes of the kinetic sculptures depicted in the photo above. The sculptures have been attached to the many remnants of old piers that dot the waters around New York City and are designed to make a clock-like movement with the incoming tide. (Momo has a great video of the latter on his site.)

Because I’m a burn-out, I forgot to take pictures of the kinetic sculpture prototypes. (I got distracted by the marching band.) But there’s still plenty of opportunity to see ‘em for yourself. The show is up through Oct. 10th.

More images after the jump. Click on pix to supersize.

For these pieces, Momo developed a computer script to which he and El Tono fed different shapes. The program then produces these random ensembles, which the artists printed and displayed. (Photo by C-M.)

One of the random images generated. (Photo by C-M.)

Another randomly generated print. (Photo by C-M.)

Shapes produced by Momo and El Tono, floating in the murky waters just off Manhattan. (Image courtesy of Momo.)

Here is one of those 3-D pieces that was produced by all that dirty water. (Photo by C-M.)

Another nature-generated random assemblage. (Photo by C-M.)

And the whole row of ‘em. (Photo by C-M.)

Pieces from their outdoor kinetic sculpture series. As I mentioned earlier, there were prototypes displayed at the gallery, none of which I remembered to photograph. (Photo by C-M.)

And here’s that marching band that distracted me from the task at hand. (Photo by C-M.)

I mean, honestly, who’s gonna think about art when there’s fishnets to be admired. (Photo by C-M.)