Written for the "Concert for Seven Pictures", 1500 copies of "Fur Statik" were supposed to be scattered from an aeroplane over Dusseldorf on March 1959, in the occasion of a personal exhibition of the artist in Alfred Schmela gallery. The gesture was perfectly scenographied (cf. pictures of Tinguely on an helicopter holding the leaflets) but the artists didn't received the authorisation to fly and had to drop the project. The leaflets were finally spread from the artist through the city on a Triumph car.

Author(s): Jean Tinguely

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Language : German

Medium : Leaflet

Original edition of the manifesto: Written for the "Concert for Seven Pictures", 1500 copies of "Fur Statik" were supposed to be scattered from an aeroplane over Dusseldorf on March 1959, in the occasion of a personal exhibition of the artist in Alfred Schmela gallery. The gesture was perfectly scenographied (cf. pictures of Tinguely on an helicopter holding the leaflets) but the artists didn't received the authorisation to fly and had to drop the project. The leaflets were finally spread from the artist through the city on a Triumph car.

Where can we find this manifesto? Antje Kramer (ed), Les grands manifestes de l'art des XIXe et Xxe siècles, BeauxArtséditions, 2011, pp. 190-193. Danchev, Alex, 100 Artists' Manifestos. From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, Londres, 2011.

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Which critic recognizes the work as a manifesto ? or: Typical characteristics of a manifesto Antje Kramer (ed), Les grands manifestes de l'art des XIXe et Xxe siècles, BeauxArtséditions, 2011, pp. 190-193. Danchev, Alex, 100 Artists' Manifestos. From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, Londres, 2011.

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