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Jean Tinguely’s Fontaine Joe Syffert from Eight by Eight, 1984 is a vibrant and chaotic screen-print that exudes energy and movement. The composition bursts with color, featuring dynamic swirls of red, pink, yellow, and green against a deep black background. The abstract forms seem to explode from the center, giving the piece a sense of spontaneity and action. Tinguely’s use of vibrant paint splatters and bold strokes creates a sense of both chaos and harmony. The handwritten elements and signatures at the bottom add a personal and playful touch to this limited edition work, typical of Tinguely’s style, which often embraces mechanical movement and playful abstraction.

Jean Tinguely (Switzerland, 1925–1991) was a Swiss sculptor renowned for his kinetic art, creating mechanical sculptures that often satirized automation and the overproduction of material goods. His notable works include 'Homage to New York' (1960), a self-destructing sculpture exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jean Tinguely

Fontaine Joe Syffert from Eight by Eight, 1984

Name: Fontaine Joe Syffert from Eight by Eight, 1984
SKU: 14613
Price: 1300.00 USD
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Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

Medium

Screen-print

Screen-print Screen printing is a technique where ink is transferred through a mesh onto a substrate, with areas blocked by a stencil to prevent ink from passing through. This method, also known as serigraphy or silkscreen printing, is commonly used to produce prints on posters, T-shirts, vinyl, stickers, wood, and other materials. The process is a type of stencil printing, allowing for vibrant, detailed designs on various surfaces.

Edition

Edition of 300

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To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

- Jean Tinguely

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. 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. 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)

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Fontaine Joe Syffert from Eight by Eight, 1984

104.8 x 73 cm

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