October 10 2024 -> February 02 2025
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via Chiese 2
20126 Milan
Italy
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Jean Tinguely (Fribourg, 1925 – Berne 1991) is considered one of the greatest pioneers of 20th-century art who radically changed the concept of the artwork itself, and one of the foremost exponents of kinetic art. His work focuses on the exploration of the machine, its function and movement, its noises and sounds, and its inherent poetry. Tinguely was one of the first artists to incorporate found objects, gears, and other materials into his work, welding them together to create noisy, cacophonous machines powered by real engines. His sculptures also have a performative quality due to their constant movement and peculiar ability to involve the audience.
The exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca is the most extensive survey in Italy since the artistʼs death and will include more than thirty seminal works from the 1950s to the 1980s, occupying nearly the entire 5000 sqm space. The last major tribute to Jean Tinguely in an Italian institution took place in 1987 with the exhibition “Una magia più forte della morte” (A magic Stronger than Death) at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, curated by Pontus Hultén. The new Milan exhibition project is closely tied to the original industrial purpose of the Pirelli HangarBicocca building. The show will be the occasion to reflect on the artist’s idea of the museum and the “anti-museum,” and at the same time, it will recall his workshop-factory in La Verrerie in canton Fribourg: the result will be a sonic and visual scenery of monumental kinetic works, where colorful musical installations will be juxtaposed with cacophonous machines. This retrospective exhibition will also be an opportunity to recall Jean Tinguelyʼs close relationship with Milan, which was the focus of some of his most ambitious projects, such as La Vittoria (1970), an iconic performance that took place in Piazza Duomo. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Museum Tinguely, Basel.
Photo: Jean-Tinguely, Rotozaza @ BettinaMatthiessen
