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. He grew up in
Basel and belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in 1950s and 60s. He signed the manifest of the
New Realism movement (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.His self-destroying Homage to New York (1960) failed to self-destruct at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York City; his Study for an End of the World (1961) detonated successfully. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In Arthur Penn's
Mickey One (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute.
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