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EVERYTHING MOVES, exposition Jean Tinguely | KUNSTHAL ROTTER… | Flickr Jean Tinguely, Francis Picabia, Louise Nevelson, Henry Moore, Art Assemblage, Alberto Giacometti, Found Object Art, Creative Review, Kinetic Art

KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM 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. He grew up in Basel and belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in 1950s and 60s. He signed the manifest of the New Realism movement (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960. His self-destroying Homage to New York (1960) failed to self-destruct at the Museum of…

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FOR, STUDIO 61* Tinguely was also a pioneer in the field of art that engenders social engagement. His sculptures often rely on the spectator to push a button, pull a lever, or somehow cause them to start moving. Jean Tinguely Sculptor b. 1925, Fribourg, Switzerland; d. 1991, Bern ABOUT Jean Tinguely as early as the late 1930s, he began to create hanging sculptures that used motors to propel them into motion. He later called his form of mechanized sculpture “Méta-Malevich.” In 1954, art…

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