Jean Tinguely

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Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor and painter who was most well known for his creations of kinetic art, known technically as meta-mechanics, in the grand Dada tradition. Jean Tinguely’s basic purpose for his art is to lampoon the unconscious over-creation of material items in modern industry. Jean Tinguely’s best known work was Homage to New York, which he designed to destroy itself.

« To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. »
Jean Tinguely

Chaos I

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However, it did not completely self-destruct in its exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A later work,Study for an End of the World No. 2, was successful in its self-destruction when shown for an audience in the desert near Las Vegas.

« One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. »
Jean Tinguely

Some of his more well known public works include Chaos I, in Columbus Indiana; the Tinguely Fountain in Basel; the Jo Siffert Fountain in Fribourg, Switzerland; La Cascade, a sculpture in Charlotte, North Carolina; and a number of other metamatic generative sculptures made in the 1950s. (Artist website)

Switzerland / male artist / Kinetic art / Junk art / Nouveau Realism / Pop art / Systems Art / Performance art / Hard Edge art / Found Object / Abstract art / Late modernism

ARTWORKS BY Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely

Fontaine Joe Syffert From Eight By Eight, 1984

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Jean Tinguely

Chaos I, 1973

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Jean Tinguely

Roto Zaza No. 1, 1975

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Hannibal, 1967

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Meta Drawing, 1974

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Meta drawing, 1974

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