Museum Tinguely [SEP] named after
Museum Tinguely
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Located in the Solitudepark by the Rhine, the museum was designed by the Ticinese architect Mario Botta and opened on 3 October 1996.
A variety of Tinguely's kinetic art sculptures are on permanent display, complemented with illustrations, photographs and other documents related to the artist's life and work. Tinguely's wife, Niki de Saint Phalle has donated 55 sculptures to the
Pauline (USA)
- D.A. Therrien (USA)
- Prominent kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson described Tinguely as his "primary spiritual artistic mentor", and paid homage to him in his work "Tinguely in Moscow".
See also.
- New Realism
- Rube Goldberg—Conceptual pioneer of excessively complex machinery
- Useless machine
- Arthur Ganson
Further reading.
- Museum Tinguely in Basel
- Chapter on Tinguely in Calvin Tomkins' "The Bride and Her Bachelors".
- K.G.