Tinguely's gigantic kinetic toy

This assemblage sculpture is really gigantic.  One pushes a red button to start the engine, and walks up the stairs to get in the centre of the moving elements.

a short video taken from the platform

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Tinguely Museum - Basel, Switserland
www.tinguely.ch


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playful-drawing-machines

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Tinguely's shadow

Waking up in a fluffy, white world this morning.  I enjoy looking at the monochrome garden and fields, so different from the colourful spring, summer and autumn.  I think it is about time I publish these pictures I've taken more than a year ago in Basel, Switserland in the Tinguely museum.  Not the works ... but their shadows.  I've got this addiction...

Museum Tinguely

Basel - Switserland

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Jean Tinguely - part 3 - Méta-Matics

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Meta-matic drawings vary enormously, entirely according to how the machine is set up and used. No two drawings are ever completely identical. How close the felt-pen, or whatever is being used, is fixed to the paper, is an important factor, but the fluidity or otherwise of of the colouring agent, or the texture of the paper, will also play a part. The operator can use pencil, ballpoint, airmail stamps, invisible ink . . . The decisive thing is how long the machine is allowed to run without interference, and how long with each separate colour. But however it is set up, it is impossible for the machine to produce an ugly drawing.
Hultén 1975, p. 82.

L'appareil à faire des sculptures - The engine to make sculptures

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Museum Tinguely in Basel Switserland

Jean Tinguely & Niki de Saint Phalle - part 2

Niki de Saint-Phalle and partner Tinguely worked together on many projects. Here are a few of them on display at the Tinguely museum in Basel.

great inspiration for a chair project

The Cyclop

This sculpture is actually the model of the 22 meters high sculpture Le Cyclop in Milly-la-Forêt in France, build together with befriended artists.

It started as an illegal constuction, now it is open to the public.

We got there on a bright sunny morning, when we left it was pouring.

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Jean Tinguely - kinetic art - part 1

museum Tinguely in Basel is a must for lovers of the unusual and of kinetic art. The place is stacked with moving sculptures that rattle, shake, blink, move, squeak, ....
Most of the sculptures are on hold until a red button is pushed to start the movement ... and the noises.
For those who can't stand squeaking sounds I recommend to turn the volume down.






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in the last video I focused on the shadow play, just as interesting as the work itself.
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Daniel Schwarz - Fire & Iron

On the Autobahn from Zürich to Basel we suddenly decide to leave the highway and take the smaller roads in the countryside. It seemed more than just coincidence that we decided to do so just at that point.

The first village we reach has large steel sculptures alongside the road, we definitely had to stop to see where these came from.

Signs lead towards a house and large studio hidden in the green hills.

We go and see where the loud noise of working tools come from.

The artist and artisan at work is Daniel Schwarz

- explaining how he shapes the iron on a beautiful worn out log -

- showing us his impressive works made in various techniques in the studio, garden and exhibition area.

He makes custom build works together with garden designers

Gets inspiration from various artists like Giacometti ...

... Dali ... and others

- work in progress, the painting is the first part of a triptych -

Currently participating in Skulptura 2009 - Kunstort Glarnerland - Switserland