First dancer of the Berne Opera in the 1950s, theater director, concrete poet, pioneer in the publishing of multiples and artists’ books, collector, creator of artistic restaurants, he was a singular figure between Dada , Fluxus and New Realism. Portrait by his art friends.
Daniel Spoerri, mischievous eye of art, died on November 6 at the age of 94. Daniel Spoerri is a mocking dive into the absurd that is before our eyes, an ironic look at the daily life, a summary in heterogeneous and common objects of this universal dilemma that is the human condition and which is taking shape with the work of an artist. “Each painting that I paste is the reflection of an incredible number of actions and reactions that are intentional, thoughtless or risky. This dirty glass, this old alarm clock, this rusty nail, why are they there? What provokes me is not the realism of the object, it is its questioning”explained the master of art picnics and the inventor of the “trap painting”, in 2018 to Alexandre Devaux (Daniel Spoerri, The Conversation InstinctBuchet Chastel editions), the art historian who exhibited this heir of the Dadaists in Austria in 2016, alongside his friend, the acidic Roland Topor, and the charming François Morellet.
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