Jean tinguely homage to new york moma
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In early January 1960 Billy Klüver received a letter from Pontus Hultén that Jean Tinguely was coming to New York and that he should help him. Klüver was at that time working at Bell Laboratories doing theoretical and experimental work on free electron beams and lasers. He had already met Tinguely in Paris a few years earlier. Pontus had introduced him as "the man who made anti-television sets."
The opening of Tinguely's first show in New York at the Staempfli Gallery, January 25, 1960, was packed with people. Not quite knowing what Hultén had in mind, Klüver asked Tinguely what he could do for him. Tinguely explained that he wanted to make a machine that destroyed itself and that he needed bicycle wheels. The Museum of Modern Art in New York invited Tinguely to build his self-destroying machine in the garden of the museum.
Klüver found a bicycle dealer in Berkeley Heights, NJ where he lived, who happened to be cleaning ou
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BLACK-TIE DADA
Jean Tinguely was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to produce a work to be performed in the Sculpture Garden in March 1960. In collaboration with other engineers and artists, among them Billy Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg, he produced a self-destroying mechanism that performed for twenty-seven minutes during a one-night-only public event for two hundred and fifty invited guests.
Composed of bicycle wheels, dismantled musical instruments, electric motors, an addressograph, a go-cart, glass bottles, a bathtub, and other cast-offs collected from New Jersey dumps, the sculpture was twenty-three feet long, twenty-seven feet high and painted entirely in white.
During its brief operation, a meteorological trial balloon inflated and burst, coloured smoke was discharged, paintings were made and destroyed, and bottles crashed to the ground. A cacophonous round of sounds including metal drums, a radio broadcast, a recording of the artist explaining his work,
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Light Cone
A recording of the life and death of a selfdestructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, this film also deploys numerous camera techniques, which gives the film its own life, independent of but parallel to its subject.
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| distribution format | 16mm |
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| screen | 1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
| speed | 24 fps |
| sound | optical sound |
| rental fee | 42,00 € |
| distribution format | Digital file on server (FHD) |
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| screen | 4/3 (single screen) |
| speed | 23,976 fps |
| sound | sound |
| rental fee | 42,00 € |