Jean Tinguely

The Swiss sculp­tor Jean Tinguely (*1925, Fri­bourg, † 1991, Bern) trained at the Kunst­werbeschule in Basel. Tinguely cre­ated sound-producing, motor-driven machine sculp­tures con­sist­ing of metal parts often found at the scrap­yard. The leit­mo­tif of his oeu­vre is move­ment that can actively be expe­ri­enced acousti­cally or visu­ally. His auto-destructive works turned Kinetic art into Per­for­mance art.