Cascade - Charlotte North Carolina
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N 35° 13.699 W 080° 50.668
17S E 514153 N 3898374
Cascade by Jean Tinguely, located in the lobby of the Carillon Building in Charlotte North Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM89EF
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 02/22/2010
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This kinetic sculpture is almost too large for one picture to capture. A still picture doesn't capture all the movement involved with this sculpture and fountain.
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Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland – 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.
Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France as a young adult to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
In Arthur Penn's Mickey One (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute.
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