Joyous Machines Tate Liverpool

It is recommended that you visit Tate Liverpool to see the exhibition 'Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely'

'I went to this exhibition and I thought it was wonderful. To actually see Tinguley's machines working and to see the concepts he has developed is fascinating they are a strange mixture of the anarchic and crazy but there is a huge element of fun that lies beneath it all. I also think that Michael Landy’s work in bringing together the Homage to New York ,while it might be a bit obsessive at times, is great, especially as he has tracked down so many of the people actually involved in the H2NY event. The image of the bow tied patrons of the event picking up parts of the structure after it was destroyed and went on fire is priceless. Tinguley’s translation of Kandinsky image into a 3 dimensional moving object is very clever but also reveling in being able to combine his knowledge of the art with the formation of a 3 dimensional image completely different in form from the original concepts.

Richard Deloughry

This exciting exhibition will focus upon the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century, and renowned British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely and his constructive and destructive tendencies.

Landy will co-curate Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, and will devote special attention to Tinguely’s rarely examined early career, tracing the development of Tinguely’s work from the late 1940s building up to his momentous Homage to New York.This, the most famous and influential of all ‘auto-destructive’ works of art, was a 27ft high self-destroying mechanism that came to life for 27 minutes before catching fire during a performance in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York on 17 March 1960.

As recommended by Richard in 2nd year