This museum, built by the architect Mario Botta (*1943), is like no other: it is dedicated to the memory of Jean Tinguely (1925 – 1991), the Swiss iron sculptor and master of kinetic art, whose colorful, noisy and rotating works reach out and engage the spectator in a dialogue. It is a museum in which to muse on art in general and its role in modern-day society.
Jean Tinguely, who grew up in Basel, was an active member of the avant-garde in Paris from the 1950s on, stimulating and revolutionizing the “static” art world with his kinetic art. The Museum’s permanent collections present a selection of the artist’s machine sculptures, reliefs and drawings from all the periods of his career.
The Museum Tinguely was inaugurated in 1996 as a gift to the people of Basel and to mark the centenary of the foundation of Roche. Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely’s widow, supported the project by donating over 50 machine sculptures and a considerable number of drawings and documents from the artist’s estate to a specially established Roche Centenary Foundation. Roche built the museum, contributed works from its own holdings and provided funding for additions to the museum’s collections. The museum’s operating costs and the costs of maintaining the adjacent Solitude Park have been funded entirely and exclusively by Roche since 1996. Roche sees the museum as a continuation of its longstanding commitment to contemporary music and the arts. Other major Roche-sponsored cultural projects include Roche Commissions and Roche ‘n’ Jazz.
Innovation, quality and sustainability are as central to the museum’s as they are to Roche’s mission.
The Museum also offers a varied and lively program of temporary shows devoted to Tinguely’s fellow artists and contemporaries, as well as to related subjects such as contemporary kinetic art.
The museum is open daily - except Mondays - from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Admission: CHF 15.00
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February 3 – May 16, 2010
A tribute to the Basel Fasnacht to mark the centenary of the Fasnacht Committee.
The Basel Fasnacht has marked the city’s cultural life since numerous decades. The Museum Tinguely presents a selection of the most interesting Fasnacht art dating back to the last 100 years.
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February 10 – May 16, 2010
Le Mouvement. From Cinema to Kinetics
Movement is a theme central to art and its perception in the 20th century. The exhibition draws the connections between kinetic sculpture and film, based on the reconstitution of the famous exhibition “Le Mouvement”
in 1955, in the Galerie Denise René
in Paris.
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