© 2018, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Editor: Museum Tinguely

Concept and project management: Sandra Beate Reimann

Design and animation: Weisswert

Website programming: Sukoa AG <Interactive Technologies>

Video production: Sandra Beate Reimann

Camera and film editing: Daniel Spehr

Texts: Sandra Beate Reimann

Translations French: Martine Passelaigue

Translations English: Bronwen Saunders

Image and photo credits:

List of works:

Photos: Serge Hasenböhler, Vera Mercer, Daniel Spehr

Jean Tinguely:

Film extract: Robert Petit, Éloge de la folie, 1966, (Inv. Nr. V-000010)

Archive material in the video «Kinetic artist»: Jean Tinguely with his mother and father, photo: unknown; Vitrine for Kost-Sport, Freie Strasse, Basel, May 1949, photo: Peter Moeschlin; Jean Tinguely and Eva Aeppli in their studio at Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1956, photo: Hansjörg Stoecklin; The artists of the exhibition «Dylaby»: Per Olof Ultvedt, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Stockholm, 1962, photo: Christer Strömholm; Portrait of Jean Tinguely 1985, photo: Leonardo Bezzola.

«Where Tinguely lived» photos: Leonardo Bezzola, Vera Mercer, Andres Pardey, John R. van Rolleghem, unkown.

«Tinguelys Freunde» photos: Leonardo Bezzola, Vera Mercer, Martha Rocher, Harry Shunk and János Kender, unkown.

«Discover» photo: Monique Jacot

Wundermaschine. Méta-Kandinsky I:

«Discover»: Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 35, 1914, oil on canvas, 110,3 x 120,3 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, Donation Hans Arp 1966.

Méta-Malevich:

«Discover»:Kasimir Malewitsch, Suprematistische Komposition, 1915, oil on canvas, 80,4 x 80,6 cm, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Collection Beyeler.

Méta-Matic No. 10:

«The machine, the user, or the builder?» photo: Hansjörg Stoecklin.

Archive material in the video «Tinguely’s breakthrough»: Film extract: Robert Breer and Pontus Hultén, Le Mouvement, Galerie Denise René, Paris 1955; Flyer for the exhibtion «meta-matics» at Iris Clert and exhibition photos with Iris Clert, Hans Arp, and Marcel Duchamp, amongst others, 1959, photo: Hansjörg Stoecklin; Méta-Matic No. 17, «Biennale de Paris», 1959, photos: John R. van Rolleghem, Hans Emil Staub, Hansjörg Stoecklin

«Fun facts»: Brevet d'Invention - P.V. no 798.710 - No 1.237.934 - Classification internationale : B 43 h - B 44 d/République Française (Patent), Archive Museum Tinguely, Inv.-Nr. DOC-005919.

«Discover»: view of l’Espace Jean Tinguely – Niki de Saint Phalle, ©MAHF/Primula Bosshard.

Relief méta-mécanique sonore II:

Video of artwork Relief méta-mécanique sonore II: WerkVideo-Archiv Bd. 1 / Video Nr. 1, Museum Tinguely, Kummli, 2002, Archive Museum Tinguely (Inv.-Nr. V-000282).

«Sound elements» photos: Christian Baur.

«Discover»: detail of Jean Tinguelys Pandämonium No. 1 – Méta-Harmonie 3, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan, exhibition «music  machines/machine music», Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2016, photo: Daniel Spehr.

Radio WNYR No. 15:

«Rauschenberg Broadcast» photo: installation view of the exhibition «Rauschenberg: Première Exposition (œuvres 1954-61)» at Ileana Sonnabend gallery, Paris, 1963; to the right on the wall, the combine Broadcast (1959), photo: Harry Shunk and János Kender.

«Discover»: detail of Jean Tinguelys Pandämonium No. 1 – Méta-Harmonie 3, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan, exhibition «music  machines/machine music», Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2016, photo: Daniel Spehr.

Homage to New York:

Video: Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York, 1960, Archive Museum Tinguely (Inv.-Nr. V-000167).

«Discover»: Jean Tinguely, Etude pour une fin du monde no 1, Louisiana Museum Humlebaek, 1961, photo: Jorn Freddie.

Hannibal II:

«A fundraising campaign»: Herpert Leupin, Jean Tinguely: HANNIBAL., 1968, poster, 128 x 90 cm, Archive Museum Tinguely.

«Discover»: Jean Tinguely, Heureka, 1964, photo: © Zürich Tourismus, photographer: Diego Alborghetti.

Char MK:

«Discover»: Jean Tinguely, Heureka, 1964, photo: © Zürich Tourismus, photographer: Diego Alborghetti.

Pit-Stop:

Archive material in the video «The car racing fan»: film extract from Denise Chervet, Spuren der Zeit: Jo Siffert und Jean Tinguely. Ein Film von Denise Chervet für das SF, 2007 (Inv.-Nr. V-000146).

«Discover»: Jean Tinguely, Jo-Siffert-Brunnen, 1984, photo: © Fribourg Tourisme et Région – Pierre Cuony.

Grosse Méta-Maxi-Maxi-Utopia:

«Palazzo Grassi Venedig» photos: Leonardo Bezzola.

«von Roll» photo: Leonardo Bezzola.

«Exhibition stops» photos: Leonardo Bezzola, Serge Hasenböhler and Daniel Spehr.

«Discover»: Jean Tinguely, Luminator, 1991 , photo: Euroairport.

Mengele-Totentanz:

«A devastating fire» photo: © Alain Wicht/La Liberté.

«Discover»: Basel’s Dance of Death, photo: Historisches Museum Basel.

Schwimmwasserplastik:

«A structural problem» photos: Leonardo Bezzola.

«Five fountains» photos: Christian Baur, Leonardo Bezzola, Kathrin Schulthess and © Fribourg Tourisme et Région – Pierre Cuony.

«Active» photo: Daniel Spehr.

«Discover» photo: Andreas Zimmermann.