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) Read More

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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What is Systems Art?

Systems Art refers to a group of artists who, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, used the frameworks of conceptualism and minimalism to create art that was responsive to its environment. Rejecting traditional art themes, they embraced aesthetic systems and experimented with diverse media. Systems Art often connected with contemporary political movements of the time, emphasizing the interrelationship between the artwork, its context, and the broader social and political environment.

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