Daniel Spoerri
1930, born in Galați (Romania)
2025
The Vienna-based artist Daniel Spoerri is one of the most outstanding representatives of Object Art. Together with Jean Tinguely and Yves Klein, he is one of the pioneers of Nouveau Réalisme;
furthermore, he is regarded as the inventor of Eat Art. His Tableaux pièges (Engl. trap pictures), created in the 60s and developed further over decades, preserve a very specific time and
comprehensible atmosphere. They are captured settings: an evening with friends, a work desk, or a flea market stall. Like a trap („piège“) they hold a piece of everyday reality like in a trap.
His artistic work is characterized by vivid subversive energy, his constant curiosity, and his love for collecting the most diverse objects. They serve as testimonies of the past, their functions
and meanings - seismographs of bygone, yet simultaneously preserved times.
Kai Schupke has described Daniel Spoerri’s work as follows: “Spoerri collects old things on garbage dumps and flea markets. By collecting unused things that have been marginalized, repressed, and
discarded by society, objects that have fallen out of their cycle of service, and no longer have a place in the order of things he draws attention to the system of culture with its mechanisms of
devaluation and exclusion. You have to make reality be seen. Not its sweet-chocolate side, but the clutter, the rubbish, the eaten-off table.” Daniel Spoerri uses the trap-picture principle in
various contexts.
Daniel Spoerri describes himself as homeless. He lived in Romania, Switzerland, France, Greece, Germany, Italy and Austria. He spent a short time in New York. With the idea of the „trap
pictures“, he had secured himself a place in art history since 1959. In addition to numerous international solo and group exhibitions, he realized major projects, such as a restaurant in
Düsseldorf (1968) and the invention of Eat Art, as well as the exhibition principle "Musée sentimental". From 1978 to 1989, Daniel Spoerri taught in Cologne and Munich. From 1989, he dedicated
himself to a new large-scale project, a 14-hectare sculpture garden in southern Tuscany „Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri - Hic Terminus Haeret". In 2007, he opened the "Spoerri Exhibition Center"
in Hadersdorf am Kamp (Lower Austria). His works have been displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Important solo exhibitions have taken place in various institutions around the world such as: Le Musée Le Carroi, Chinon, France (2015), MOCAK – Museum of contemporary art, Krakow, Poland
(2019/2015), Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria (2012), Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria (2011), Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy (2010), Ludwig Museum in the
Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany (2009), Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (2007), Staatliche Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany (2006), Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
(2003), Kasseler Kunstverein, Kass.el, Germany (1998), Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France (1990) and others.
Daniel Spoerris Eintagskästchen können als Erzählungen gesehen werden, in denen Objekte neue Beziehungen miteinander eingehen, bekannte Sinnzusammenhänge aufbrechen und entgegen der Zeit ihr „Ablaufdatum“ revidieren. Er fertigt sie mit Gegenständen, die er vor allem auf
dem Flohmarkt findet: Dingen, die andere nicht mehr benötigen, haucht er so neues Leben ein. Die Objekte von Spoerri erhalten eine Identität, die von derjenigen unabhängig ist, die sie in der Welt hatten. Sie sich von den Geschichten derer frei, die keinen Grund sahen, sie aufzubewahren. In seinen
Werken, so Spoerri, verschwinden die am Flohmarkt gefundenen Dinge, die er sammelt und als Bildkompositionen an die Wand nagelt, nicht mehr. Die Arbeiten aus der Serie Eintagskästchen sind kleinformatige Collagen und Assemblagen. Sie sind meist auf einen spezifischen Tag datiert und
können mit tagebuchartigen Skizzen verglichen werden.
Künstler: Daniel Spoerri
Titel: 16.4.97: Im Schatten des verkannten Hügels.
Jahr: 1997
Assemblage
Größe: 33.5 x 35.5 x 3 cm
Unikat
Signatur: Original signiert und datiert.
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