Jean Tinguely
With a loan from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection
The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection is supporting the exhibition ‘Jean Tinguely’ with a loan from its collection.
About the exhibition: The exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca is the most comprehensive retrospective held in Italy since the artist’s death and features more than forty works from the 1950s to the 1990s (…). The exhibition moves through a single sonic and visual choreography consisting of works in various formats, some even monumental, through which sound as well as dynamic and color components emerge, together with Tinguely’s forerunning expressivity. The mechanical works establish a spontaneous connection with the vastness of the former industrial space of Pirelli HangarBicocca, offering the public the possibility to engage with and deeply explore the Swiss artist’s practice. His approach to art was intentionally detached from authorship, and therefore never unambiguous and definitive. Often realized as performance and sometimes set in public spaces, his art was transitory yet engaging and fascinating, thanks to its interactive elements. (Pirelli HangarBicocca, Mailand)