L'Esprit de Tinguely.KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG Joie de vivre--or a race against time? For Jean Tinguely Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August, 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. , making art was clearly a matter of life and death
"Matter of Life and Death" was the second episode of the first series of . . The playful, speed-loving inventor of drawing machines and self-destructing apparatuses mocked museums as "art cemeteries," though his taste for wrecked car parts and animal skulls lent his later works the quality of memento me·men·to n. pl. me·men·tos or me·men·toes A reminder of the past; a keepsake. [Middle English, commemoration of the living or the dead in the Canon of the Mass, from Latin mori. In-house curator Annelie Lutgens's and Kunstmuseum director Gijs van Tuyl's mission--and they have chosen to accept it--is to present Tinguely's oeuvre in its full diversity. Their career-spanning, seventy-odd-work roundup will be accompanied by an equally thorough catalogue. (This message will self-destruct in...) May 20-Oct. 3; Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, dates to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . |
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