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Jean Tinguely (
22 May 1925 in
Fribourg,
Switzerland –
30 August,
1991 in
Bern) was a Swiss
painter and
sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or
kinetic art, in the
Dada tradition; known officially as
metamechanics.
Tinguely grew up in
Basel, but moved to France as a young adult 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), famously failed to self-destruct 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's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.
In Arthur Penn's
Mickey One (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute.
In 1971, Tinguely married
Niki de Saint-Phalle.
Public works
See also
K. G. Pontus Hultén; Author of Jean Tinguely "Meta" (English translation published in 1975 by New York Graphic Society Ltd., Boston) Large hard cover, 519 Illustrations. Translated from German by Mary Whittall. Original German version published 1972.
New Realism
Rube Goldberg—Conceptual pioneer of excessively complex machineryFurther Information
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