Jean Tinguely was seen as the father of kinetic (moving) art and was hugely fascinated by industrial innovation. In the late 1930s he created his first hanging sculptures which were set in motion by motors. After studying art in Basel, the artist began to make more complex kinetic assemblages of found objects. He thereby questioned the static experience of art and explored the effect of the moving constructions. Tinguely was one of the artists to sign the nouveaux réalistes’ manifesto in 1960.
