September 16, 2009 – January 24, 2010

Paul Wiedmer has worked as a sculptor since the Seventies. Fire and iron are his main means of expression since the beginning; he has installed fire-museums, built fire dragons, organized autos -da- fé.
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October 14, 2009 – January 17, 2010

To the end of the 1980s dates the exceptional group of works «Gluts», assemblages of painted and varnished pieces of scrap metal. The exhibition presents a selection of 40 works.
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October 14, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Important loans as well as film and photographic documents illustrate the fascinating and multi-facetted collaboration of the early 1960s.
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May 13 – August 30, 2009

In 1991, the exhibition “Dresses like Armour” was shown in the Neue Hofburg in Vienna. The memorable and dazzling presentation of splendid Viennese state armour paired with evening dresses by the couturier Roberto Capucci has prompted the present project to revive within a larger context the glorious profession of the armourer. On the basis of pieces of armour mainly from the armoury in Graz, flanked by contemporary designers’ dresses and ‘war props‘ by Tinguely, Spoerri and Luginbühl, the exhibition is a celebration and parody of military history (from 1315 to 1991) and haute couture that is worn as a “second skin”. From the days of the prestigious profession of the armourer down to the entourage of the declared amateur locksmith Tinguely the development leads to the central issue of the “hinge”: the malleability of iron.
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February 4 – April 19, 2009

The draughtsman and cartoonist, editor and art educator Ted Scapa is also a passionate collector. He collects works not only of his friend Jean Tinguely but also large-scale prints and drawings from Tapiès to Immendorf, and especially art of non-European peoples. The result is a colourful hotchpotch which is totally in keeping with the untamed creativity and sparkling energy of the artist and man Scapa.
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February 11 – April 19, 2009

Bicycles were still a status symbol in Chinese society in the 1970s. The bicycle enabled its owner to engage in business. Tricycles were common as mobile kitchens, for the transport of coal, as workshops or for garbage removal.
The bicycle is disappearing from today’s Chinese cities and with its disappearance an entire part of street culture is lost. As a symbol of change, bicycles are being relegated to museums.
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September 19, 2008 – February 1, 2009

This autumn, the Museum Tinguely presents the largest donation ever made to the museum since its inauguration 12 years ago: the donation by Christoph Aeppli comprises all 43 bronze heads by Eva Aeppli, as well as works by Niki de Saint Phalle and an important early relief by Jean Tinguely.
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October 22, 2008 – January 18, 2009

Jürg Hassler constructs chessboards and chessmen; he thereby reinvents the old game of chess and gives it back the ludic component that he finds missing in today’s chess game. The basic interest of the game lies in “having no obligation to prove anything to anyone, giving free rein to the pleasure of the game, not in order to win but in order to reinvent ever renewed forms of dialectic contrasts, giving priority to form over colour.”
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Special programme
Jürg Hassler will be present in the exhibition for a game of chess on the following Sundays:

January 18, 2009
11:00 am to 1:00 pm
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

May 28 – September 14, 2008

At once painter, draughtsman and an installation artist, Pavel Schmidt documents in this exhibition his interest in the manner in which our society appropriates for itself masterpieces of western art in order to transform them into misleading copies and objects of consumption. The exhibition presents the artist’s sculptures, paintings, drawings and installation. Some of his monumental works refer directly to the architecture of and to the art within the Museum Tinguely – Niki de Saint Phalle in- as well as outdoors.
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May 24 – August 10, 2008
The exhibition is being prolonged by one week, until Sunday, August 17, 2008.

Josef/Sepp/Sep(p)i Imhof was for many years Jean Tinguely’s assistant and since the inauguration of the Museum Tinguely, in charge, as Chief Conservator, of the upkeep as well as installation and de-installation of the Swiss artist’s machine-sculptures, as well as numerous other duties. In May, Sepp is leaving to enjoy his well-earned retirement.
As a parting present he has “carte blanche” to have a showing of his choice in the Museum.
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March 5 – June 29, 2008

In general, we assume that artists make art – but what happens, if machines produce art? Do artists then become engineers? What is the meaning of the apparent withdrawal of artists from the creative act and what consequences does this have for the artwork’s originality and uniqueness? And what is an artwork in the first place: the machine, the product, or the act of its production? What role is granted the viewer in the course of production: interaction or exclusion? Starting with Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines from the 1950s, the exhibition jointly organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum Tinguely will present art machines from different ages and contexts through to the present day.
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January 16 – May 4, 2008

The exhibition on Hannah Höch (1889–1978), developed in cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie, residence of the Hannah Höch-Archives, and for the venue at Basel enriched by important loans from German and Swiss collections, is the first comprehensive showing in Switzerland of the work of the sole female member of the Berlin Dada group: It assembles the early collages and paintings of her Dada-period right after the First World War, the works of the 1930s and 40s, long kept secret because of their encoded criticism of the Nazi dictatorship, and the less known, late works that manifestly anticipated Pop Art by their motifs and bright colours, and were Höch’s reaction to scientific discoveries of the day.
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12 September 2007 – 27 January 2008

The artist Max Ernst was born in Brühl near Cologne in 1891 and died in Paris in 1976. The exhibition in Basel assembles around 150 of his works, some of which, on loan from international museums and galleries as well as private collectors, have rarely, and in certain cases never before, been shown in public.

This will therefore be the first comprehensive overview of the multifaceted œuvre of this painter, collagist and sculptor to be held in Switzerland since several decades. Throughout his life, Ernst was interested in exploring big issues – from Eros and Thanatos to the unconscious, the origins and metamorphoses of nature to their appropriation and co-option by man.

Ernst’s genius resided in his adaptation and transformation of existing artistic techniques, to which he added completely new ones such as collage, grattage, frottage and decalcomania. By using these as a vehicle, and by referring repeatedly to his own body of work, he not only questioned, but revolutionised the art world with more lasting effect than almost any other twentieth century artist.

Live restoration – The metamorphosis of Ancolie
At the heart of the Basel exhibition will be the monumental painting Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie, originally conceived in 1934 as a mural for Zürich’s Corso Dancing bar. A programmatic work showing a female creature partially hidden behind large, brightly coloured petals, it now belongs to the Kunsthaus Zürich; but for the duration of the exhibition it is to be restored by conservators working in a special show workshop set up for this purpose. One of the special attractions of the Basel exhibition will therefore be the chance to watch this remarkable painting being returned day by day to its original radiance.
"The restoration of Max Ernst’s work, Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie, on permanent loan from the Kunsthaus Zürich, is being supported by the Museum Tinguely, a cultural commitment of Roche, and the Foundation BNP Paribas Switzerland.”
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17 August – 2 December 2007

Book presentation and exhibition vernissage on August 16, 2007, 6:00 p.m.

In the mid 1970s, Anita Neugebauer undertook a courageous venture. Born in Berlin in 1916 and trained as a photographer, she opened the first art gallery for photography in Switzerland.

Thirty years Gallery ‚photo art basel’ – though the jubilee was in fact last year. However, this year’s celebration takes place a year later as on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the gallery, celebrated on its 21st anniversary in 1997 with an exhibition entitled “Flowers for Anita”, to which 28 photographers of both sexes contributed various photographs of flowers in honour of Anita Neugebauer.

Today, we are composing this bouquet afresh, but in two manners: an exhibition and a publication on photography to mark Anita Neugebauer’s commitment to the medium and document the various exhibitions she organised as well as her collection. Selected works by a group of internationally acclaimed photographers record a piece of history and illustrate her lifelong passion for the medium. Thus the existence of the gallery and the biography of its founder merge to furnish a fascinating and lively window open on a world on the threshold of new technologies in the field of imagery.

Book: Alex Silber (Ed.) Blumen für Anita. Anita Neugebauer und die Galerie photo art basel. 2007. 148 pages with over 100 b&w and colour illustrations. Bound. (CHF 48.-/ € 33.50). Schwabe Verlag Basel

16 May – 5 August 2007

From May 16 through August 5, 2007, the Museum Tinguely is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the Swiss artist Alfred Hofkunst (1942-2004).

The artist/graphic artist Hofkunst did not master his field only but many others as well. Thus, the exhibition is more than a simple «homage» and aims to reveal the multiple talents of an artist that could only be grasped by a visit to his atelier. These astounding works are full of humour and even laughter. Here is an opportunity to re-discover an oeuvre that encompassed hyperrealist drawings of light bulbs and shutters, but included also the artistic production of garbage bags.

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4 April – 5 August 2007

The Museum Tinguely presents the most extensive exhibition hitherto on the Situationist International that was founded on July 28, 1957. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation, 400 exhibits will illustrate this last important avant-garde movement that counted 72 artists among its members, with sections in Germany, Holland, America, North Africa and elsewhere, rescuing it from oblivion.

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14 February – 29 April 2007

After his training as a photographer in Fribourg and Berne and a few years freelancing, the Basel photographer Kurt Wyss (*Basel, 1936) was since the mid-Sixties photographic editor of the National-Zeitung and subsequently, until he retired, editor and photographer of the Basler Zeitung.

As a newspaper reporter, Kurt Wyss photographed ordinary daily occurrences as well as unusual events. But next to his activity as a press photographer, he manifested a great interest for the world of the arts: his photographs of artists eg. Jean Dubuffet and Jean Tinguely and writers are shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His photographic chronicles on various subjects, amongst them migration in Switzerland, are published in a quantity of books and anthologies.

The exhibition at the Museum Tinguely presents a survey of Kurt Wyss’s work.

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29 August 2006 – 4 March 2007

A collaboration between the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Museum Tinguely, Basel, with the support of the Niki Charitable Art Foundation, San Diego

The exhibition is a celebration of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) and their intense collaboration reflected in their common and individual works. It is an exhibition about the “Bonnie and Clyde of the arts”, as they were introduced in 1962 by a speaker on an American TV channel, about one of the most flamboyant and famous couples in modern art.

The exhibition is in three parts: The Artists, The Collaboration, The Love.
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22 September – 21 January 2007

This exhibitions at the Museum Tinguely documents Roche’s commitment to contemporary art, architecture and culture.

Not only is Roche a worldwide leading healthcare company and one of the important employers in the Basel region, but since its foundation also a leading sponsor of contemporary art, architecture and culture. The show, organised on the occasion of the Roche ‘open house’ days on September 23 and 24, 2006, highlights this manifold commitment.

22 September –  22 October 2006

This exhibitions at the Museum Tinguely documents Roche’s commitment to contemporary art, architecture and culture.

Not only is Roche a worldwide leading healthcare company and one of the important employers in the Basel region, but since its foundation also a leading sponsor of contemporary art, architecture and culture. The show, organised on the occasion of the Roche ‘open house’ days on September 23 and 24, 2006, highlights this manifold commitment.

28 April – 27 August 2006

The Paul Sacher Foundation and the Museum Tinguely are presenting an exhibition devoted to one of the groundbreaking composers of the twentieth century, a man with close ties to artists and writers such as Antonin Artaud, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Joan Miró and Man Ray. Varèse was second to none in exploring new worlds of sound and exploiting concepts from the natural sciences. The exhibition will present the very first overview of his estate as well as include many items on loan from international collections.
Musical manuscripts and works of art, recorded examples and accompanying events will create a living picture of a major composer who had a lasting influence on generations of musicians from Pierre Boulez to Frank Zappa.
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17 May – 6 August 2006

Béatrice Helg is a photographer who has developed her own style. Constructing artificial spaces, she conceives model situations in her atelier – playing with surfaces, with the background, and placing objects centrally. Materials play an extremely important role, and especially light effects.
22 photographs are being presented at the Museum Tinguely side by side with Jean Tinguely’s machine sculptures.
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25 January – 2 May 2006

For fifty years, Eva Aeppli has collected the documents most important to her (letters, manuscripts, drawings, prints, photographs, etc.) which she received from her friends – artists, writers/poets, scientists – as well as her own material in huge folios called «Livres de Vie». Thus she has, over this long period, created a kind of «autobiography without words». Some of her friends have contributed a great deal to these «Livres de Vie» that have thus become important personal documents on post war art in Europe.
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21. September 2005 – 29. January 2006

In a joint project with the Museum der Kulturen Basel, the Museum Tinguely presents the first retrospective exhibition of the Australian bark painter John Mawurndjul in a European art museum.

John Mawurndjul’s artistic development from the beginning of his career in the 1970s until the present day refutes the widespread prejudice in Europe that denies ‘Indigenous’ artists the right to a personified individuality and the capacity to innovate outside the boundaries of the authority of their community. He further demonstrates in his paintings that dealing actively with traditional sources can be a fruitful experience if one is capable of understanding tradition other than as an anonymous and inalterable corset. Our «Journey through Time in Northern Australia» takes us from the rock paintings, some of which hark back 30 000 years and mark the Aborigines’ sacred sites, down to the present day.
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9 March - 26 June 2005

The exhibition jointly conceived and organised by the Kunsthaus Graz and the Museum Tinguely Basel asks questions about the particular nature of machinery and the link between man and machines at the beginning of the 21st century. At the same time, the exhibition will investigate the importance of kinetic art for contemporary artists.
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21 January - 22 May 2005

The world renowned Magnum photographer René Burri (born in 1933), whose legendary portrait of Che Guevara has been a photographic icon for many years, caught a number of important artists of the 20th century through his lens. The great photographer also realised numerous individual portraits and reportages on his friend Jean Tinguely and his work between 1967 and 1991. Camera in hand, Burri observes the artist at work in his atelier “Le Cheval Blanc” at Soisy-sur-École and during construction of the monumental sculpture “Le Cyclop”, literally peering over his shoulder. In the photographic series showing Tinguely installing his works at the World Exhibition in Montreal, in Basel or in Venice, the photographer manages to capture the artist’s spontaneity and essence – his fascination with movement – in almost cinematographic shoots.

For our museum, René Burri has made a selection of his black & white and colour photographs of Jean Tinguely and his artist friends (such as e.g. Yves Klein), to be shown in an installation with vintage reportages and life-size prints. Burri’s film documenting the installation of the Tinguely Retrospective in 1972 at the Kunsthalle Basel completes the presentation.

The Museum Tinguely and Magnum Photos have cooperated in realising this exhibition.
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21 September 2004 - 16/23 January 2005

The exhibition Three Islands at the Tinguely Museum presents the works of three American artists : Richard Stankiewicz, June Leaf, Robert Lax.
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6. Juni bis 31. Oktober 2004

Mit den farbigen Metall-Stelen von Gottfried Honegger zeigt das Museum Tinguely Werke, die einen bewussten Gegenpol zur chaotisch-künstlerischen Maschinenwelt Tinguely darstellen. Erstmals wird dabei der Solitude-Park aus Ausstellungsort genutzt.
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11. Juni bis 29. August 2004

100 Meter Sonnendeck: Im Auftrag von sun 21 hat der japanische Künstler Tadashi Kawamata am Kleinbasler Rheinufer eine Sonnenterrasse aus Holz eingerichtet. Die künstlerische Intervention lädt Passantinnen und Besucher dazu ein, an der Sonne Energie zu tanken. Das Museum Tinguely zeigt unter dem Titel "Process and Documents" eine Begleitausstellung, in der Kawamata den Entstehungsprozess und die Hintergrundgedanken seiner Installation dokumentiert.

1. Mai bis 22. August 2004

Die Ausstellung im Museum Tinguely ermöglicht mit rund 150 Leihgaben aus internationalen Museen und vielen, sehr selten gezeigten Werken aus Privatbesitz zum ersten Mal seit 1971 in der Schweiz wieder einen Einblick in das originäre Werk von Kurt Schwitters (geb. 1887 in Hannover, gest. 1948 im englischen Exil in Ambleside).
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1. Mai bis 22. August 2004

Begleitend zur Schwitters-Ausstellung, zu der auch die Kulturstationen Tinguelys präsentiert werden, zeigt das Museum Tinguely Werke des Art-Brut-Künstlers Giovanni Battista Podestà (1895 – 1976). Jean Tinguely sammelte selbst die Werke des italienischen Bildhauers und stellte sie im Cyclop, der riesigen begehbaren Kopfplastik im Wald von Milly-la-Fôret, aus.
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18. Mai bis 22. August 2004

Ein kleines Warenhaus im südfranzösischen Dorf Mugron hat nach seiner Schliessung fast 30 Jahre unverändert überdauert. Die Ausstellung stellt diesen Laden nun als dreidimensionales Zeitdokument bzw. als grosses Stilleben ins Rampenlicht.
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22. Oktober 2003 bis 2. Mai 2004

Dr. Franz Meyer, ehemaliger Direktor der Berner Kunsthalle (1955–1961) und der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel (1962–1980) schenkte dem Museum Tinguely ein ausserordentliches Konvolut an Autografen, collagierten Briefzeichnungen und weiteren Memorabilien von Jean Tinguely. Diese grosszügige Schenkung ist vom 21. Oktober 2003 bis zum 2. Mai 2004 in einer Kabinett-Ausstellung zu sehen.
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21. September 2003 bis 14. März 2004

Die Ausstellung in Basel zeigt in einem Querschnitt das gesamte Schaffen des vielseitigen Künstlers. Neben Gross- Eisen-Plastiken wie dem jüngsten Atlas ZWILLING, zwei BOSS-Skulpturen oder dem ROSS- ALTAR sind auch seine monumentalen farbigen Holzskulpturen präsent. Die Modelle der Verbrennungen sind ebenso Teil der Ausstellung wie seine Tagebücher. Die Druckgraphik wie auch das zeichnerische Oeuvre begleiten die Präsentation der Skulpturen. Eine besondere Rolle spielt in der Ausstellung aber auch die Beziehung Luginbühls zu Jean Tinguely.
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12. April bis 28. September 2003

Das Museum Tinguely zeigt zweihundert Werke des rusischen Künstlers Iwan Puni aus der Sammlung Herrman Berninger und internationalen Museums- sammlungen. Eine Auswahl von ca. vierhundert Fotografien der Fondation Herzog dokumentiert die Zeit kurz nach der Oktoberrevolution und der darauf folgenden Jahre in St. Petersburg.
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18. März bis 3. August 2003

Leonardo Bezzola begleitete Jean Tinguely während über 30 Jahren mit der Kamera. Er war der fotografische Chronist, der die Werke und Ausstellungen, aber auch die Person und das künstlerische wie private Umfeld von Jean Tinguely dokumentierte. Neben dieser Tätigkeit entstanden – oft auf Reisen – Fotografien von Land- schaften, Gebäuden, Autos und Menschen. Diesem "anderen" Leonardo Bezzola ist ein wichtiger Aus- stellungsteil gewidmet.
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11. September 2002 bis 23. März 2003

Im Zentrum der Ausstellung "Jean le Jeune" steht Jean Tinguelys 1954 bis 1959 entstandenes Frühwerk und es werden erstmals die frühen Jahre des Künstlers in Basel und Paris beleuchtet, in denen die Grundlagen für das gesamte folgende Schaffen gelegt wurden.
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14. November 2002 bis 16. Februar 2003

Miriam Tinguely, die Tochter von Eva Aeppli und Jean Tinguely, ist Künstlerin wie Ihre Eltern. Ihr Werk unter- scheidet sich allerdings in vielem, doch "so entfernt thematisch und mental Miriams Bildwelt von ihrer Mutter auch sein mag, sie ist ihr weit verwandter als Jeans fröhliche und tiefsinnige Maschinenkunst. Es ist die unsichtbare Textur, das heimliche Gewebe, das Mutter und Tochters Bildsprache verbindet, das Liniengeflecht, die Massierung der Striche."
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16. Juli 2002 bis 20. Oktober 2002

Robert Spreng erkannte als einer der ersten Schweizer Photographen, dass sich die Kunst des Lichtbildes von der Malerei lösen und zu einem eigenständigen künstlerischen Ausdruck finden muss. Bis zu der Auf- lösung seines Ateliers im Jahr 1967 schuf er zahllose Werke, die heute zu den Schönsten und Gesuchtesten in der Photographie der Neuen Sachlichkeit gehören – und auch zu den Seltensten, denn der Verbleib seines Nachlasses ist weitgehend ungeklärt. Spreng prägte die photographische Ästhetik unserer Zeit nachhaltig.
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20. März 2002 bis 30. Juni 2002

Duchamps Œuvre und seine Person nehmen in der Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine zentrale Rolle ein. Sein Einfluss wirkt bis in die Gegenwart hinein, indem er das Verhältnis der Kunst zum Leben, die Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung provokativ offengelegt und somit die Vorstellung vom Kunstwerk und ihrem Produzenten entscheidend verändert hat.
Die Ausstellung zeigt Duchamps Schaffen an aus- gesuchten Werken und konzentriert sich dabei vor allem auf die Aspekte, die das Schaffen von Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) nachhaltig geprägt haben: Mechanisches, Bewegung und Optisches, Spiel und Humor.
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26. September 2001 bis 17. Februar 2002

Niki de Saint Phalle und Jean Tinguely lernten sich 1956 in Paris kennen und lebten seit 1960 zusammen, zuerst in Tinguelys Wohnatelier in der Pariser Impasse Ronsin, dann ab 1963 in der ehemaligen Auberge "Le Cheval Blanc" in Soisy-sur-Ecole. 1971 heiratete das Paar. Doch die beiden verband nicht nur eine Lebens-, sondern auch eine intensive, gleichberechtigte Arbeitsgemein- schaft, untereinander und mit anderen Künstlern.
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15. November 2000 bis 22. April 2001

Die Neupräsentation des „Mengele Totentanzes“ im Museum Jean Tinguely bildet die Gelegenheit, die Ver- ankerung von Tinguelys Gruppe in der jahrhunderte- langen Tradition des Totentanzes und verwandter Darstellungen mit zahlreichen Werken vom 15. bis zum 20. Jh. zu veranschaulichen, ganz gemäss Tinguelys Ausspruch: "In Basel lebte ich mit dem Totentanz."
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15. November 2000 - 22. April 2001

Nach der erfolgreichen Ausstellung "L'Esprit de Tinguely" im Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg sind neue Leihgaben in unserem Museum zu Gast. Neben einer neuen Präsentation der Maschinenskulpturen der Sammlung wird der Schwerpunkt vor allem auf Werke der 60er Jahre gelegt, die wichtige Etappen in der künstlerischen Entwicklung von Jean Tinguely markieren. In einem neu konzipierten Videoraum werden Filmdokumente über seine Aktionen mit autodestruktiven Konstruktionen der frühen 60er Jahre wie Homage to New York und Study for an End of the World No. 2 gezeigt. Zu sehen und zu erleben sind Balubas, Totems und Radioskulpturen, die für die Assemblage-Technik, für die Wiederverwendung von Fundobjekten und Schrott stehen. An den Arbeiten von 1963 wie Mautz zeichnet sich Tinguelys Entwicklung hin zu den vollständig schwarz bemalten Bascule- und Eos-Skulpturen bereits ab. Hier werden aus Schrott Kunstwerke, deren einheitliche Erscheinung und Wirkung wieder viel stärker der klassischen Skulptur entspricht. Es entstehen in sich geschlossene, zum Teil monumentale Werke, deren Konturen in einen spannungsvollen Dialog mit dem Umraum treten.

17. Mai 2000 bis 15. Oktober 2000

Im Museum Jean Tinguely Basel sind vom 17. Mai bis zum 15. Oktober Werke des 1940 geborenen Künstlers Panamarenko zu sehen. Die Ausstellung bietet eine seltene Gelegenheit, das Werk des Belgiers wieder einmal in der Schweiz zu sehen. Als Künstler, Ingenieur, Poet, Physiker, Erfinder und Visionär zugleich vertritt Panamarenko in der zeitgenössischen Kunst eine aus- serordentliche und nur schwer einzuordnende Position. Seine poetischen Konstruktionen von oft monumentalen Ausmassen sind künstlerisches und technisches Ex- periment zugleich. Sie können zahlreiche Formen annehmen: Flugzeuge, fliegende Untertassen, Auto- mobile, Unterseeboote - Maschinen, die gleichermassen spielerisch wie ehrfurchtgebietend sind.
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