Exhibition at the Museum Kunstpalast: Jean Tinguely, Super Meta Maxi

In collaboration with the Tinguely Museum and the Stedelijk museum a show of over 100 of Jean Tinguely’s works was presented starting with his first wire sculptures all the way through to his most famous metamechanics. This show was the first major exhibition of the late Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1991) in 15 years.

A lot of Tinguely’s sculptures were created with random found items and machinery constructing a piece of work that comes to life. The works were placed in various areas of 2 halls with the larger works taking up a wall of corner of its own. Some of the sculptures had provided buttons that would trigger movements and some of those movements created certain sounds like the iconic work Ballet des pauvres (1961).

A particular work at the exhibition that always fascinates is Schnudernase (1988) and various other sculptures that all hung from the ceiling. They had many functioning light bulbs of different colours attached on metal bars which would come is many shapes and forms as well as some having metal wheels  which rotated certain parts of the sculpture or other found items, creating a fantastic atmosphere with them moving all together.