Absurd Kinetic Technology Art by One and Only JEAN TINGUELY - images & videos insight
Last year in one of our most prestigious museum's of Amsterdam, "Stedelijk Museum", I visited an exposition of Jean Tinguely, the Swiss artist who was a multi talent and played a key role in the establishment of the kinetic aka moving art. Since the 50s he created more than 100 machine pieces, most of them working, and mostly combined with other art forms such as films, photos and drawings. Tinguely was a character, his art had that even more; He and his art can be characterised by: absurd play, fascination for destruction and ephemerality.
I love big art; I love art that not only moves me but can move in its own right
Jean Tinguely in 1964
https://static01.nyt.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000000761945
Art in Motion at Museum Basel (Switzerland)
Exhibition Overview Museum Basel
Exposition overview & Short Documentary by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Wow! Must be very impressive to see in real life!
Absolutely! And also makes some noise. Some of the art pieces creates painting, a bike to drive it. He even created a book stand with an old phone book on it to kill the time :)
Cool! If you like this kind of moving /living art, you could appreciate our fellow Dutchman (maybe you know him already) Theo Jansen and his project Strandbeest.
Didn't realise you are Dutch; Great! :)
Wow, "Standbeest" is super; I'll share it here for others to see. Darn, all the beach session planned in 2017 are sold out :(
:) Dutch, but living in Portugal. I should invite Theo here with his beachanimals, we have some awesome windy beaches here! Enjoy your weekend!
Nice! You too! Enjoy Mothersday...or don't they have that down there?
They have, but a week earlier :)
Thank you. Great imagery.
Thank you as well, watch the videos, super cool to see all the art moving. in reality it is even more cool, but videos are good to start with :)
Incredible what you always find. I have most bookmarks from you :)
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