Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)

“Tinguely’s machine art [ ... is] the merging of two things: […] the unconventional procedures Tinguely shared with the Abstract Expressionists and the everyday materials and subversive attitude that linked him to the Dadaist tradition [... and] the breaking away from these traditions to make something absolutely positive, using a medium that was close to the pulse of contemporary civilization.” (H. E. Violand-Hobi, Jean Tinguely: Life and Work, New York, 1995, p. 44)