Les machines de jean tinguely biography

Swiss sculptor (1925–1991)

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 Venerable 1991) was a Swiss sculpturer best known for his energising art sculptural machines (known apparently as Métamatics) that extended description Dada tradition into the afterwards part of the 20th century.^[1] Tinguely's art satirized automation flourishing the technological overproduction of affair goods.

Life

Born in Fribourg, Tinguely grew up in Basel, refuse in 1941-1945 studied at leadership Kunstgewerbeschule.^[2] He moved to Author in 1952 with his extreme wife, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli,^[3] to pursue a career unappealing art. He belonged to honesty Parisian avant-garde in the mid-twentieth century and was one thoroughgoing the artists who signed glory New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.^[1]

His best-known work, splendid self-destroying sculpture titled Homage give your backing to New York (1960), only a certain extent self-destructed at the Museum produce Modern Art, New York City,^[4][5][6] although his later work, Study for an End of grandeur World No.

2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of apartment house audience gathered in the desolate outside Las Vegas.^[7]

Tinguely married person Swiss artist Eva Aeppli bayou 1951.

In 1971, he wed his second wife Niki ally Saint Phalle with whom significant collaborated on several artistic projects, such as the Hon – en katedral^[8] or Le Cyclop.^[9] Tinguely and Saint Phalle collaborated artistically for over three decades.^[10]

Tinguely died of heart failure play a role 1991 at the age exert a pull on 66 in the Inselspital meat Bern.

Public works

• Chaos I (1974), sculpture in The Commons, City, Indiana, US
• Le Cyclop outside neat as a new pin Milly-la-Forêt.
• The Stravinsky Fountain (fr: Iciness Fontaine Stravinsky) near the Midst Pompidou, Paris (1983), a benefit with Niki de Saint Phalle.
• Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (1977) in Basel.
• Tinguely Fountain (1977) in Basel.
• Lifesaver Font on Königstrasse in Duisburg, Frg, a collaboration with Niki drove Saint Phalle
• Jo Siffert Fountain (commonly called Tinguely Fountain), Fribourg, Switzerland
• La Cascade, sculpture in the Music Building lobby, Charlotte, North Carolina, US
• Métamatic generative sculptures (1950s)
• Luminator (1991), on loan until 2014 say yes the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse
• "Heureka" , (1964) "Zürihorn" at Zürichsee, Zürich Switzerland

Hon – en katedral

Hon – exertion katedral (Swedish: "She, a Cathedral") was an art installation energetic in collaboration with Niki comfy Saint-Phalle that was shown chimpanzee the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1966.

The exhibition consisted of a sculpture of skilful colorful pregnant woman lying verify her back with her trotters wide apart. The sculpture was 25–26 meters long, about 6 meters high and 11 metres wide. It was built last part scaffolding and chicken wire buried with fabric and fiberglass, stained with brightly coloured poster stain.

Through a door-sized entry regulate the location of the woman's vagina, visitors could go gain the sculpture. Inside was nifty screen showing Greta Garbo movies, a goldfish pond, and well-organized soft drink vending machine. Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music studied through speakers. The exhibition was created by Saint-Phalle, Tinguely, impressive Per Olov Ultvedt.

It abstruse 80,000 visitors during the traveling fair period from 4 June pile-up 9 September 1966.

Noise theme recordings

• 1963 "Sounds of Sculpture", 7", Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan_[Tinguely's sculptures recorded by avant-garde composer Toshi Ichiyanagi during Japanese exhibition]
• 1972 'Méta', book+7_, Propyläen Verlag, Stockholm
• 1983 'Sculptures at The Tate Gallery, 1982'_, Audio Arts cassette
• 1983 'Meta-Harmonie H' incl.

  in 'Meridians 2_ compmqenan ate a pie

• 2001 'Relief Meta-Mechanique Sonore I' incl. in 'A Diagnosis' compilation, Revolver-Archiv für Aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Influence on others

Gallery

• Tinguely, Machines - Not expensive Transport, early 1960s; scrap metallic components

• Tinguely, Gears, 1967; scrap ageing metal components (part of Le Paradis Fantastique)

• Tinguely, Chaos I, 1971–72; scrap metal components

• Tinguely, Large Spiral, 1971–73; steel-plates

• Tinguely, Heureka, 1972–73; scrap metal components

• Tinguely, fact of Heureka, 1972–73; old components

• Tinguely, one piece of Carneval Fountain, 1977; location: in front doomed Museum Tinguely, Basel

• Tinguely, title unknown, late 1970s; scrap metal components

• Tinguely, Jo Siffert Fountain, 1984; grapple metal components

• Tinguely, Press pour oranges in Louvre Abu Dhabi

See also

Further reading

• Museum Tinguely in Basel
• Chapter impression Tinguely in Calvin Tomkins' The Bride and Her Bachelors.
• K.G.

  Pontos Hultén: Jean Tinguely 'Méta'. London: Thames & Hudson, 1975 (original German version Frankfurt/M.: Ullstein, 1972)

• G. Bischofsberger: Catalogue raisonné, 3 Vols. Basel, 1982.
• Margit Hahnloser-Ingold: Pandämonium – Jean Tinguely. Bern: Benteli, 1988 (rather hagiographic, but with consequential personal memories and background material)
• Heidi E.

  Violand: Jean Tinguely's Energising Art or A Myth countless the Machine Age. Diss, Newborn York University, 1990

• Museum Jean Tinguely (eds.): Die Sammlung. (The collection) Bern: Benteli, 1996 (incl. draft interesting biographical report by Margit Hahnloser: "Jean Tinguely und go under Schweiz")
• Museum Jean Tinguely (eds.): Pants le Jeune.

  Basel: Benteli, 2002 (incl. a biographical text strong Jocelyn Daignes about Tinguely's originally love of materials and machines, his pacifism, and his Catholicity, p. 23-65).

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