Title:
Black Knight
Creator/Contributor:
Jean Tinguely (artist)
Date:
circa 1960
Identifier:
1968.74
Format:
Steel, wire, electric motors
Tinguely's sculpture shares with its Minimalist counterparts (such as the work of Judd and Flavin) a use of ordinary, commercially
manufactured materials and a devotion to pure abstraction. But it is quite different in appearance and temperament.
Contrary to Minimalism's static and orderly forms, Tinguely creates sculptures that not only point and swerve every which
way; they even move. With a dark sense of humor, Tinguely pokes fun at the machinery and purposefulness of our industrial
age.