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Swiss visual artist Daniel Spoerri, father of “Eat Art”, has died
The Swiss visual artist, Daniel Spoerri, figure of “New Realism” and father of “Eat Art”, which consists of fixing the traces of a meal in a work, has died.
A woman looks at a work created in 1972 by Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri at the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, Germany.
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“We are deeply saddened by the disappearance of Daniel Spoerri, emblematic figure and founding member of New Realism,” said the Center Pompidou, in Paris, on X.
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“His unique look at art, through his ‘trap paintings’ and his unexpected assemblages, was able to capture the moment, the ordinary and the surprising. His legacy will remain a source of inspiration and singular reflection,” continued the institution.
The Swiss artist of Romanian origin born in 1930 on the banks of the Danube in Galati (eastern Romania) is known for his three-dimensional still lifes linked to the art of the table.
The principle is simple: at the end of a meal, Daniel Spoerri freezes, by sticking them to the support, the trace of this meal (cutlery, plates, leftover food, packaging, etc.). He calls it “Eat Art” of works and actions featuring food and our eating habits.
With this concept, the former dancer founded the “New Realism” movement in 1960 alongside artists like Yves Klein, Arman, Raymond Hains and Jean Tinguely.
“Dirty dish artist”
Daniel Spoerri even went so far as to manage a real restaurant in Düsseldorf (Germany) between 1968 and 1972, where customers who could afford it could leave with their own work.
He doubled the initiative with the creation of the Eat Art Gallery where artists like Cesar, Ben and Arman exhibit edible ephemeral creations while painters like Pierre Soulages participate in some of his banquets.
But Daniel Spoerri will seek to get rid of this label of “dirty dish artist”. In his “trompe-l’oeil” series, he places a real object on a canvas or a tapestry found at flea markets and questions the boundaries between reality and illusion.
His works were the subject of a retrospective in numerous museums, including the Center Pompidou in Paris in the 1990s. More recently, in 2021, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mamac) in Nice dedicated a major exhibition.
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