Art@Site www.artatsite.com Jean Tinguely Fasnachts-Brunnen Basel
Artist:

Jean Tinguely

Title:

Fasnachts-Brunnen

Year:
1977
Adress:
Theaterplatz
Website:
Feast of recognition
Look, there's a water fountain on a stalk. What a vain character ...
And have you seen the curved shape which is paddling with balls through the water? What is this a submissive subject ...
In the middle is a wheel. That is surrounded with the craziest constructions and is splashing water in all directions. This is the scatterbrain of the bunch ...
The artworks by Jean Tinguely look just like people.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com

Vertaling
Feest van herkenning
Kijk, daar is een fontein op een steeltje. Wat is dat een ijdele kwast …
En zie je de gebogen vorm met ballen die door het water scheppen? Wat is die onderdanig …
In het midden is een wiel. Die heeft de gekste constructies om zich heen en spat water in alle richtingen. Dit is de chaoot van het stel …
De kunstwerken van Jean Tinguely lijken nét mensen.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com

www.welt-der-form.net:
Die zehn motorbewegten Objekte aus Alteisen haben alle einen eigenen Namen. Geschenk der Migros an die Stadt Basel.
Jean Tinguely, *1925, Freiburg im Üechtland, †1991 Bern.
Fasnachts-Brunnen, 1977.
Standort: Theaterplatz.

www.wikipedia.org:
Der Brunnen mit zehn maschinellen Skulpturen in einem grossen Wasserbecken, welche zum Teil aus Versatzstücken, d. h. aus beweglichen, versetzbaren Teilen der ehemaligen Bühnenausstattung des Stadttheaters konstruiert wurden, zeigt die für Jean Tinguely typischen Wasserspiele. Diese werden durch Schwachstrommotoren bewegt und sprühen Wasserfontänen durch die Luft.
Die zehn Skulpturen haben folgende Namen:
dr Theaterkopf – der Theaterkopf
d’Spinne – die Spinne
dr Waggler – der Wackler
d’Fontääne – die Fontäne
dr Spritzer – der Spritzer
dr Suuser – der Sauser
dr Wäädel – der Wedel
dr Schuufler – der Schaufler s’Seechter – das Sieb
dr Querpfyffer – der Querflöter.

www.wikipedia.org:
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as metamechanics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.
Born in Fribourg, Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France in 1952 with his first wife, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City,[4] although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
Tinguely married fellow Swiss artist Eva Aeppli in 1951. In 1971, he married his second wife, Niki de Saint Phalle with whom he collaborated on several artistic projects, such as the Hon – en katedral or Le Cyclop.
Tinguely died in 1991 at the age of 66 years in the Bern Hospital of heart failure.