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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Tinguely, Jean (1925 - 1991) Switzerland
Indian Chief, 1961
Wood, metal, plastic, feather and electric motor; 109.5 x 62.5 cm Kinetic Art
UID 102-570
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Biography
Born in Fribourg, Switzerland. 1931-40 Attends schools in Basel. 1941-44 Apprenticeship as decorator. From 1947 Member of the circle of Basel anarchist Heiner Koechlin. 1952 October: Moves to France with his wife Eva Aeppli. 1954 Opens his first exhibition at the Galerie Arnaud in Paris. Meets Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein. 1958 Exhibition at Galerie Iris Clert of My Stars - Concert for Seven Paintings; Exhibition at the same gallery together with Yves Klein of the installation Vitesse pure et stabilité monochrome. 1959 Evening at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London, a happening with racing cyclists and drawing machines. 1960 Hommage à New York, action with a self-destructing machine sculpture in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Co-founder of the group Les Nouveaux Réalistes. 1970 Construction begins in Milly-la-Forêt on Le Cyclop, a giant walk-in sculpture created in collaboration with Bernhard Luginbühl, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri and others. 1977 At the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, creation of Le Crocrodrome de Zig & Puce, an installation by Jean Tinguely, Bernhard Luginbühl and Niki de Saint Phalle, inside which Daniel Spoerri sets up a 'Musée sentimental'. 1987 Creation of a huge, walk-in work called Grosses Méta Maxi-Maxi Utopia in a factory building of Von Roll AG in Klus, Switzerland. 1988 Dedication of the fountain at Château-Chinon - commissioned by the President of France, François Mitterand - created in collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle. 1990 With the support of Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, Tinguely exhibition at the Tretjakov Gallery in Moscow. 1991 Creation of La Cascade, a large hanging sculpture, in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. In Vienna: the last exhibition personally arranged by Tinguely. Jean Tinguely died at the Inselspital, Bern.
Exhibitions
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
Arte Cinética / Arte Op na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 29-09-2001 ~ 31-10-2001
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Pomar - Autobiography, 2004 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9723709066
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art Part I, London, Thursday, 2nd December 1993, lot. 7, 1993 Published by Sotheby´s
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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