Jean Tinguely
Attempting to bring a precision to abstract, Jean Tingly sets out to make a drawing machine,
His so called ' Meta -Matics' provide movement to create unique drawings and painting, d.i.y abstract art that anyone can make. Referred to a Anti-Mechanics, due to the fact that they work with mechanical disorder. Tinguely loved these machines as they made art so accessible, insisting on the participant to relinquishing control, and allow for chance outcomes, a new unique piece of abstract art could be made.
“The machine sculptures engage in a loud and multi-coloured conversation with the onlooker: Through his works, Jean Tinguely communicates and interacts with the spectator. The machine functions and becomes art. Tinguely’s artworks sparkle with wit, vitality, irony and poetry. Seen against a deeper background, though, they also reveal a feeling for tragicomedy, for the enigmatic and inscrutable.” – museum Tinguely
"Tinguely owed much of his great popularity to the wit, charm, irony and sincerity of his objects. Sometimes the working of the parts and thus of the machines was quite unpredictable, resulting in a bewildering abundance of processes. They are like caricatures of the utilitarian, mechanical world, embodying Tinguely's critical posture towards technological optimism and his divergence from the Italian Futurists' belief that movement imbued with technology represented the most important objective of modern art." - Tate
"Jean Tinguely created his work as a rejection of the static, conventional art world; he sought to emphasize play and experiment. For Tinguely, art was not about standing in a sterile white space, distantly gazing at a silent painting. He produced kinetic sculptures to set art and art history in motion, in works that animated the boundary between art and life. With his do-it-yourself drawing machines, Tinguely critiqued the role of the artist and the elitist position of art in society. He renounced the unicity of “the artist’s hand” by encouraging visitors to produce work themselves.
Collaboration was integral to Tinguely’s career. He worked extensively with artists like Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint Phalle (also his wife), Yves Klein, and others from the ZERO network, as well as museum directors such as Pontus Hultén, Willem Sandberg, and Paul Wember. Thanks to his charismatic, vibrant personality and the dazzling success with which he presented his work (and himself) in the public sphere, Tinguely was a vital figure within these networks, acting as leader, inspirator, and connector."
- See more at: http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/jean-tinguely-machine-spectacle#sthash.zYyuZA8h.dpuf
"Tinguely has become best known for his experimental kinetic machines and explosive performances that reject the static, conventional art scene. with an emphasis on play and experimentation, the swiss artist explored his fascination for destruction and ephemerality with his do-it-yourself drawing machines, dynamic sculptural works and self-destructive performances. for tinguely, art was not about standing in a sterile white space, but rather a way to animate the boundary between art and life."
This passion for art being something that is not pure and shiny, and instead being reflective of life, sometime broken or neglected but pregnant with potential and able to be re-worked, is highly regarded as being the opposite of the mind set of the day. However, show a more contemporary way of thinking that mirrors the thoughts of today. I am fascinated with the life colour the artists injects into every piece and how it lifts and contrasts with the mettle around it.
The scrape-yard nature of his work, posses questions of back story towards the past lives of the objects associated.
"the presentation features tinguely’s early wire sculptures and reliefs, which include imitated, animated versions of abstract paintings by malevich, miró, and klee. these interactive drawing machines and wild dancing installations were constructed from a mix of mediums, including salvaged metal, waste materials, and discarded clothing. tinguely’s ‘méta-matics’ are provocative: as automated versions of american abstract expressionism, they play ironically with the dominant artistic forms of the 1950s. the subjective, intuitive creative process is no longer driven by ‘the unconscious’, but instead by an electric motor. the ‘autonomous’ automatic drawings of the ‘méta-matics’, however, are more than a mere reaction to contemporary art movements: tinguely also articulates a criticism of technological advances and human dependency on machines." - Erco
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