Untitled

Material

Wood, metal, steel and fur; 349.00 × 65.00 × 47.00 cm

Dating

1984

About the artwork

The sculpture “Untitled” by Daniel Spoerri is an assemblage of many individual “found objects”, so-called “objets trouvés”, assembled in such a way as to create a completely new context. It is based on a three-legged wooden stool with an oversized corkscrew with a funnel mill and a rotating crank. Two twisted metal rods protrude from a wooden head bearing the artist’s signature, over whose forehead an animal fur is drawn. The whole object looks like an animal. The skull as a vanitas symbol is a recurring motif in Spoerri’s works.

About the artist

The Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri, born in Romania in 1930, originally comes from the field of classical dance and pantomime. At the city theatre in Berne he staged plays with artistic contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Eugène Ionesco and Jean Tardieu.
He was a co-founder of the artist group “Le Nouveau Réalisme”, which was founded in Paris in 1960 and also included Jean Tinguely, Arman and Yves Klein.
In 1986, Spoerri opened his “Restaurant der Sieben Sinne” in the old city of Düsseldorf, where he carried out legendary “Eat Art” actions with Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth and other artists. Spoerri counts internationally among the most important object artists of the 60s and 70s.