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Jean Tinguely (1925 – 1991)

The machine sculptures engage in a loud and multi-coloured conversation with the onlooker: Through his works, Jean Tinguely communicates and interacts with the spectator. The machine functions and becomes art. Tinguely’s artworks sparkle with wit, vitality, irony and poetry. Seen against a deeper background, though, they also reveal a feeling for tragicomedy, for the enigmatic and inscrutable.

#1: Jean Tinguely im Atelier Impasse Ronsin mit Horizontal II, 1954. Foto John R. van Rolleghem. #2: Jean Tinguely und Eva Aeppli, Paris, ca. 1960. Foto Robert Doisneau. #3: Eva und Jean im Atelier Impasse Ronsin, Paris, ca. 1956. Foto Hansörg Stoecklin. #4: Jean Tinguely im Impasse Ronsin, ca. 1958. Foto John R. van Rolleghem

<< | >> 1955

1955: At the beginning of the year Tinguely moves into a studio in the Impasse Ronsin; his neighbours are the sculptor Constantin Brancusi and other artists.
Shows his relief «Méta-mécanique sonore II» in an exhibition at the Galerie Samlaren in Stockholm.
Together with Pol Bury, Soto, Calder, Vasarely, Calder, Duchamp and other artists, Tinguely takes part in the exhibition «Le Mouvement» at the Galerie Denise René in Paris, where kinetic art, for the first time, plays a major role.