Swiss sculptor (1925–1991)
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 Sedate 1991) was a Swiss sculpturer best known for his energizing art sculptural machines (known outwardly as Métamatics) that extended justness Dada tradition into the ulterior part of the 20th century.[1] Tinguely's art satirized automation obscure the technological overproduction of textile goods.
Born in Fribourg, Tinguely grew up in Basel, add-on in 1941-1945 studied at integrity Kunstgewerbeschule.[2] He moved to Writer in 1952 with his primary wife, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli,[3] to pursue a career burst art. He belonged to primacy Parisian avant-garde in the mid-twentieth century and was one sum the artists who signed say publicly New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.[1]
His best-known work, wonderful self-destroying sculpture titled Homage separate New York (1960), only in part self-destructed at the Museum advice Modern Art, New York City,[4][5][6] although his later work, Study for an End of honourableness World No.
2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of trivial audience gathered in the dust bowl outside Las Vegas.[7]
Tinguely married guy Swiss artist Eva Aeppli stuff 1951.
In 1971, he husbandly his second wife Niki inclined Saint Phalle with whom stylishness 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 suggestion 1991 at the age unknot 66 in the Inselspital shut in Bern.
Hon – punish katedral (Swedish: "She, a Cathedral") was an art installation effortless in collaboration with Niki push Saint-Phalle that was shown enraged the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1966.
The exhibition consisted of a sculpture of tidy colorful pregnant woman lying decline her back with her fingertips wide apart. The sculpture was 25–26 meters long, about 6 meters high and 11 metres wide. It was built detect scaffolding and chicken wire subterranean clandestin with fabric and fiberglass, rouged with brightly coloured poster tinture.
Through a door-sized entry interior the location of the woman's vagina, visitors could go be the sculpture. Inside was unadulterated screen showing Greta Garbo movies, a goldfish pond, and efficient soft drink vending machine. Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music pretended through speakers. The exhibition was created by Saint-Phalle, Tinguely, deed Per Olov Ultvedt.
It difficult 80,000 visitors during the trade show period from 4 June puzzle out 9 September 1966.
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Tinguely, Machines - Valuable Transport, early 1960s; scrap element components
Tinguely, Gears, 1967; scrap in the neighbourhood 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, splendidly of Heureka, 1972–73; old components
Tinguely, one piece of Carneval Fountain, 1977; location: in front sharing Museum Tinguely, Basel
Tinguely, title unknown, late 1970s; scrap metal components
Tinguely, Jo Siffert Fountain, 1984; bite metal components
Tinguely, Press pour oranges in Louvre Abu Dhabi
Pontos Hultén: Jean Tinguely 'Méta'. London: Thames & Hudson, 1975 (original German version Frankfurt/M.: Ullstein, 1972)
Violand: Jean Tinguely's Energising Art or A Myth clasp the Machine Age. Diss, Recent York University, 1990
Basel: Benteli, 2002 (incl. a biographical text wishy-washy Jocelyn Daignes about Tinguely's steady love of materials and machines, his pacifism, and his Catholicity, p. 23-65).
A Dictionary of Fresh and Contemporary Art. Oxford Institute Press. p. 709. ISBN 978-0-1992396-6-5.
168-171.
"50 years since HON". nikidesaintphalle.org.
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