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Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled ''Homage to New York'' (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, although his later work, ''Study for an End of the World No. 2'' (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
Tinguely married fellow Swiss artist Eva Aeppli in 1951. In 1971 he married his second wife, Niki de Saint Phalle, with whom he collaborated on several artistic projects, such as the ''Hon – en katedral'' or ''Le Cyclop''.
Tinguely died of heart failure in 1991 at the age of 66 years, in the Inselspital in
File:Jean Tinguely's parade at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.jpg, Tinguely, ''Machines - Le Transport'', early 1960s; scrap metal components
File:SE - Stockholm - Gears - 2009-07-15 (4891114084).jpg, Tinguely, ''Gears'', 1967; scrap old metal components (part of ''Le Paradis Fantastique'')
File:2015 Chaotic Tuesday.jpg, Tinguely, ''Chaos I'', 1971–72; scrap metal components
File:Tinguely Grosse Spirale.jpg, Tinguely, ''Large Spiral'', 1971–73; steel-plates
File:Heureka (Jean Tinguely) - Zürichhorn 2013-04-13 16-21-43 (P7700).JPG, Tinguely, ''Heureka'', 1972–73; scrap metal components
File:Heureka Zurich 02.jpg, Tinguely, detail of ''Heureka'', 1972–73; old components
File:Basel Tinguely vor Museum.jpg, Tinguely, one piece of ''Carneval Fountain'', 1977; location: in front of Museum Tinguely, Basel
File:Tinguely in Kunsthal Rotterdam 14.jpg, Tinguely, ''title unknown'', late 1970s; scrap metal components
File:Tinguely-Jo Siffert Fountain Fribourg Aug 2010.jpg, Tinguely, '' Jo Siffert Fountain'', 1984; scrap metal components
Tinguely-Museum in Basel
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Métamatic
In the mid-1950s Jean Tinguely began production of a series of generative works titled Métamatics: machines that produced art works. With this series of works Tinguely not only problematised the introduction of the robotic machine as interface i ...
s) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.
Life
Born in Fribourg, Tinguely grew up in Basel, and in 1941-1945 studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He moved to France in 1952 with his first wife, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (''Nouveau réalisme'') in 1960.
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled ''Homage to New York'' (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, although his later work, ''Study for an End of the World No. 2'' (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
Tinguely married fellow Swiss artist Eva Aeppli in 1951. In 1971 he married his second wife, Niki de Saint Phalle, with whom he collaborated on several artistic projects, such as the ''Hon – en katedral'' or ''Le Cyclop''.
Tinguely died of heart failure in 1991 at the age of 66 years, in the Inselspital in Bern
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Public works
* '' Chaos I'' (1974), sculpture in The Commons,Columbus, Indiana
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, USA
* ''Le Cyclop'' outside of Milly-la-Forêt.
* The '' Stravinsky Fountain'' (fr: La Fontaine Stravinsky) near the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1983), a collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle.
* Carnival Fountain (''Fasnachtsbrunnen'') (1977) in Basel.
* Tinguely Fountain (1977) in Basel.
* Lifesaver Fountain on Königstrasse in Duisburg, Germany, a collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle
* Jo Siffert Fountain (commonly called Tinguely Fountain), Fribourg, Switzerland
* ''La Cascade'', sculpture in the Carillon Building lobby, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
* Métamatic
In the mid-1950s Jean Tinguely began production of a series of generative works titled Métamatics: machines that produced art works. With this series of works Tinguely not only problematised the introduction of the robotic machine as interface i ...
generative sculptures (1950s)
* ''Luminator'' (1991), on loan until 2014 to the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse
''Hon – en katedral''
''Hon – en katedral'' (Swedish: "She, a Cathedral") was anart installation
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...
made in collaboration with Niki de Saint-Phalle, that was shown at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1966. The exhibition consisted of a sculpture of a colorful pregnant woman lying on her back with her legs wide apart. The sculpture was 25–26 meters long, about 6 meters high and 11 metres wide. It was built of scaffolding and chicken wire covered with fabric and fiberglass, painted with brightly coloured poster paint. Through a door-sized entry in the location of the woman's vagina, visitors could go into the sculpture. Inside was a screen showing Greta Garbo films, a goldfish pond, and a soft drink vending machine. Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music played through speakers. The exhibition was created by Niki de Saint-Phalle, Tinguely and Per Olov Ultvedt. It had 80,000 visitors during the exhibition period from 4 June to 9 September 1966.
Noise music recordings
* 1963 'Sounds of Sculpture', 7'', Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan_ inguely'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, GermanyInfluence on others
* In Arthur Penn's '' Mickey One'' (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute. *Survival Research Laboratories
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is an American performance art group that pioneered the genre of large-scale machine performance. Founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline, the group is known in particular for their performances where custom-built mac ...
, directed by Mark Pauline (USA)
* D.A. Therrien (USA)
* Prominent kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson described Tinguely as his "primary spiritual artistic mentor", and paid homage to him in his work "Tinguely in Moscow".
Gallery of Works
See also
* New Realism * Useless machine * Arthur Ganson *Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.
Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadge ...
Further reading
* Museum Tinguely in Basel *Chapter on Tinguely in Calvin Tomkins' ''The Bride and Her Bachelors''. *K.G. Pontus 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 interesting personal memories and background material) *Heidi E. Violand: ''Jean Tinguely's Kinetic Art or A Myth of the Machine Age''. Diss, New York University, 1990 *Museum Jean Tinguely (eds.): Die Sammlung. (The collection) Bern: Benteli, 1996 (incl. an interesting biographical report by Margit Hahnloser: "Jean Tinguely und die Schweiz") *Museum Jean Tinguely (eds.): Jean le Jeune. Basel: Benteli, 2002 (incl. a biographical text by Jocelyn Daignes about Tinguely's early love of materials and machines, his pacifism, and his Catholicism, p. 23-65).References
External links
Tinguely-Museum in Basel
*https://web.archive.org/web/20060210001214/http://www.art-public.com/cyclop/cyclop_g.htm *videos: Tinguely's kinetic fountains i
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at Museum of Modern Art * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tinguely, Jean 1925 births 1991 deaths Neo-Dada People from Fribourg Swiss sculptors 20th-century Swiss artists 20th-century Swiss sculptors 20th-century male artists 20th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters Swiss contemporary artists Nouveau réalisme artists 20th-century sculptors Modern sculptors Swiss expatriates in France