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Jean Tinguely: A Symphony of Destruction and Delight Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) stands as a singular figure in 20th-century sculpture, recognized for his audacious exploration of kinetic art—a movement rooted deeply within Dada’s rebellious spirit. More than just creating machines, Tinguely crafted performances of disintegration, transforming metal scraps into mesmerizing dances of collapse that simultaneously mocked industrial excess and celebrated the inherent beauty of decay. Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, he possessed an early fascination with sculpture, nurtured by formative encounters w…
A chart of Jean Tinguely's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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