Tag: Jean Tinguely

  • Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely: Myths and Machines

    She was an aristocrat sculpting voluptuous female figures, he a working-class maker of scrap metal kinetic sculptures – but their tumultuous personal relationship and creative collaborations endured

  • Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet

    From a dress made from 200 lightbulbs to works made by computer, the Tate takes us on a dizzying, dense trip through half a century of electrically augmented art, fretted with optimism for a future that never came

  • Jean Tinguely

    Barbie dolls, garden gnomes, toy gorillas and an exploding penis reveal Tinguely’s mischievous spirit in this fiesta of ideas, movement and noise

  • Fabienne Verdier: ‘I am an intrepid woman, a bit of a rebel maybe’

    Verdier explains her unique method of vertical painting, using a handmade brush with a large reserve of paint, capable of expressing her seemingly unstoppable flow of energy

  • Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle

    From kinetic sculptures to ‘do-it-yourself machines’ and scorched animal skulls to self-destructing golden phalluses, Tinguely courted controversy and spun spectacle throughout his life. Here, the artist who fought against being ‘museumised’ is subjected to, well, just that

  • Niki de Saint Phalle: Je Suis Une Vache Suisse

    Despite traumatic experiences early on in life, Niki de Saint Phalle produced vivacious, playful and exuberant works, proof that creativity can emerge from destruction

  • Gustav Metzger: interview

    “When I was young I wanted art that would lift off, that would levitate, gyrate, bring together different – perhaps contradictory  – aspects of my being. The search for – the need to encapsulate varying kinds of contradictory elements, the…

  • Michael Landy: Saints Alive

    Sunley Room, National Gallery, London 23 May–24 November 2013

  • On art and technology

    One nice thing about technology is that it can neither be called serious nor the opposite. It just is. The matter is only to come to terms with it. Technology has a history but no destiny. It is used to…