Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely became famous in the fifties and sixties by building machines that draw and explode, amongst others. Hence you can say he is a one of the first artists designing machines that create and destruct!

Here is an example of one of his drawing machines. Clearly one may argue that it creates output with some creative or aesthetic quality. But who is creative here, the person riding bike not having a clue how that translates that into a painting, or the machine who does the translation but who was created by his inventor?

Some Tinguely's the drawing machines & others

A short video related to the exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum, Oct 2016 - March 2017

Which was a repeat of an expo in 1961 that featured Tinguely as well as other artists.