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4 unusual facts about Jean Tinguely


Art zuid

Artists from 21 countries participated with fifty-eight sculptures from various artists like Anthony Caro, Jean Tinguely, Anthony Gormley, Marcel Pinas, Salvador Dalí, Ryas Komu, Lu Shengzhong, Eko Prawoto, Thomas Houseago, Jaume Plensa, Atelier van Lieshout, Subodh Gupta, Yayoi Kusama, Jean Dubuffet, Rodin, Dennis Oppenheim, Ugo Rondinone, Joost Conijn etc.

Jean Tinguely

Rube Goldberg—Conceptual pioneer of excessively complex machinery

In Arthur Penn's Mickey One (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute.

Rotozaza

The name comes from a series of kinetic sculptures and performances by Jean Tinguely.


Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

The collection comprises mid-century modern art in various media by artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol, Jean Tinguely, Barbara Hepworth and Pablo Picasso.

Bruno Bischofberger

In the late 60s and early 70s, Bischofberger organized Pop-Art exhibitions, but also showed artists of the Nouveau Réalisme style such as Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely (later Bischofberger publishes Tinguely's Catalogue Raisonné).

Daniel Spoerri

During that period he met a number of Surrealist artists, including Jean Tinguely, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, and also a number of artists subsequently associated with the Fluxus movement, including Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth and Emmett Williams.

Mattijs Visser

For the ZERO foundation he curated exhibitions with Norbert Kricke, Jean Tinguely at the Tony Cragg Foundation Wupertal, and Jef Verheyen and ZERO friends at the Langen Foundation Neuss.

Museum Tinguely

The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely.


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