Jean Tinguely
©image: Lothar Wolleh
1925 - 1991
Died in Bern (Switzerland), born in Fribourg (Switzerland).
Jean Tinguely is pace-setter of the informal group of artists who commandeer the Hessenhuis in the spring of 1959. He is well apt for the role, contributing three reliefs that move fast and make much noise. The ‘concert’ that these produce was not a hit with the exhibition’s visitors. Tinguely had formerly made reliefs of geometric forms driven by electromotors inciting endless variations upon an abstract motif. At the end of the 1950s he goes further with his ‘Variation’ series, to which Papillon also belongs. It is much more brutal work. The clattering of staves with small white surfaces that, at high tempo, collide with other staves is clearly meant as a provocation. Tinguely is here already on the way towards his gigantic self-destructing installation Homage to New York from 1960.
Media
>Jean Tinguely photographed by Lothar Wolleh, Milan, 1970
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Works
>Daniel Spoerri, Robert Breer, Pol Bury, Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Bruno Munari, Dieter Roth, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Vision in Motion / Motion in Vision, 1959.Book, 42pp. illustraties in zwart wit en kleur., 21 x 21 cm.
>Piero Manzoni, Alberto Burri, Jean Tinguely, Jef Verheyen, Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau, Letter from Yves Klein to Jef Verheyen (17 January 1959), 1959.Letter, ink on paper, 29,6 x 21 cm / 2 sides, with envelope.
>Jean Tinguely, Le Papillon, 1959.Installation, curved steel plate, steel carrier, everything painted black; 2 tin white circles painted 2 on bar; electric motor 220v; timer, 65 x 65 x 50 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity. 23 March 2024 - 18 August 2024.
> Exhibition: LATT: new art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #3 creating totally new media. 24 May 2012 - 02 September 2012.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - ARCHIVE.
> Ensemble: Window on Infinity - Room 07.