plexiglas, radio parts, cable, electric motor, red light bulb
Size: 82 x 68 x 26 cm
A small motor mounted on a radio continually turns the knob for selecting the frequency, constantly switching channels and causing cheerfully harsh sounds. The elements of the apparatus, set behind plexiglas, has complete freedom.
iron wheels with rubber tires, support, auto parts, scrap iron, hoses, rubber belts and tubes, electric motor
Size: 200 x 170 x 80 cm
“Water-Spraying Sculpture” as Tinguely called it are portable sculptures that are not designed for permanent installation, but are more like lawn sprinklers that can be moved across the grass to water in sections and then in the evening, their work completed, are to be stowed away.
Wire, scrap iron, plaster bandages, paint
Size: 82 x 77 x 47 cm
A gigantic walk-in culture station, Texas collectors Jean and Dominique de Menil had purchased a plot of land near Milly-la-Forêt, south of Paris, and put it at Tinguely’s disposal to create this mammoth structure.
steel, mixed media, and electrical mechanism
515 x 700 x 465 mm
The kind of hand tools Tinguely customarily employed are brought together in an electrically-driven three dimensional collage. The appearance of movement and the beat are coordinated in a displaced way so that the illusion of irregularity is created.
tractor with machine sculpture on top: scrap iron, wooden wheels, barrels, rubbish pail, garden gnome, various percussion instruments
Size: 315 x 660 x 315 cm
Elements of a sound sculpture are mounted here atop an old tractor. Bells, cymbals, pots and barrels are struck, developing in conjunction with the striking background noise of the powerful tractor motor the accidental melody of the “Méta-Harmonies”. Added to this are firecrackers and smoke bombs ignited by the driver, which with their loud bangs and stench lend the driving sound sculpture an apocalyptic note. “Klamauk” also accompanied Tinguely on his last drive, the parade through Fribourg on the occasion of his funeral on September, 4th 1991.
iron, wooden wheel, plastic pipe, rope, electric motor
Size: 300 x 228 x 70 cm
This piece was one that hung in Tinguely’s studio after it’s showing in “Incitation à la Création” at the Abbaye de Sénanque, sponsored by Renault. It was shown with Tinguely’s first attempts of his skull sculptures.
iron, plastics, foams, mirrors, wooden wheels, electric motor
Size: 495 x 1101 x 406 cm
This piece was a homage to his artist friend, Yves Klein, who had died in 1962. Three basic colors blue, gold and pink are the main hue choices, and the mirrors affixed behind the piece lend the large machine-sculpture an indeterminate depth, emphasizing the transparency but also the fact that the viewer can sometimes feel like part of the machine.