Jean Tinguely
Méta-Harmonie II, 1979
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to Museum Tinguely, 1996

A conservation project by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager

Restoration
Marcus Broecker
Jean-Marc Gaillard
Carole Maître

Research
Marcus Broecker
Lea Brun
Isabel Friedli
Jean-Marc Gaillard
Muriel Kunz
Carole Maître
Annja Müller-Alsbach
Hildegard Spielhofer
Jasmin Sumpf

Interview partners
Leonardo Bezzola
Marcus Broecker
Jean-Marc Gaillard
Josef Imhof
Carole Maître
Annja Müller-Alsbach

Script
Marcus Broecker
Martina Jung
Muriel Kunz
Hildegard Spielhofer

Translation
Bronwen Saunders

Editing
Isabel Friedli

Films
Tweaklab AG

Camera
Valentin Felber
Philippe Gallay
Hanspeter Giuliani
Martina Jung
Severin Kuhn
Muriel Kunz
Aline Laszlo

Sound
Kaspar Hochuli

Film editing
Martina Jung
Muriel Kunz
Hildegard Spielhofer

Voice-over
Dulcie Smart
Trevor J. Roling

Acknowledgments
Isabelle Beilfuss
Roland Burri
Yvo Hartmann
Josef Imhof
Dominik Müller
Andres Pardey
Sigfried Roos

Produced by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager
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Every effort has been made to secure the permission for all images and photographs used in the program. If it has not been possible in all cases to secure these rights, we ask you to get in contact with us.

Unless otherwise mentioned, all images © Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager

© 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich, for the works of Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Yves Klein;
© SBJ/2019, ProLitteris, Zurich, for the work of César Baldaccini

Structure
Making of Méta-Harmonie II at the artist’s studio in Neyruz, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Instruments
Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie II, 1979, photo © Laurenz Fondation, Schaulager, Tom Bisig, Basel

Construction and materials
Making of Méta-Harmonie II at the artist’s studio in Neyruz, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Installation of Méta-Harmonie II for the exhibition „Luginbühl & Tinguely” at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II with visitors at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, „The collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. Opening exhibition of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst“, Basel, 1980, photo © Niggi Bräuning, Basel

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II with visitors at Kunstmuseum Basel, presentation of the collection, 1980, photo © Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie II, 1979, photo © Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager, Tom Bisig, Basel

Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie, 1978, document of the archives of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Basel, photo © Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager

Jean Tinguely on a scrap heap, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Hansjörg Stoecklin

Bernhard Luginbühl on the scrap yard of Von Roll Gerlafingen, in: Künstlerwerkplatz Industrie, Von Roll AG Gerlafingen (Ed.), Zürich, München: Artemis, 1990, photos © Leonardo Bezzola

Wanted: A welder who plays jass
Josef Imhof during the installation of Méta-Harmonie II for the exhibition „Luginbühl & Tinguely“ at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, photos © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Jean Tinguely and Josef Imhof at the artist’s studio in Neyruz, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Josef Imhof during the construction of Le Cyclop, Milly-la-Forêt, 1971, photo © Laurent Condominas

Niki de Saint Phalle, Bernhard Luginbühl, Josef Imhof, and Jean Tinguely during the start of the construction of Le Cyclop, 1971, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Leonardo Bezzola

Le Cyclop, Milly-la-Forêt, 1971, photo © Laurent Condominas

Peter Whitehead, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Bernhard Luginbühl during the shooting of a film by Niki de Saint Phalle on the site of Le Cyclop, 1975, photo © Laurent Condominas

Bernhard Luginbühl and Jean Tinguely, Galerie Kornfeld, 1972, photo © Kurt Blum / Fotostiftung Schweiz

Eva Aeppli and Niki de Saint Phalle, Paris, 1962, photo © Vera Mercer; Vera Mercer / Courtesy °CLAIR Gallery

Daniel Spoerri with Schuh des ewigen Juden, Ueberstorf, 1990, photo © Leonardo Bezzola

Jean Tinguely, Le Monstre dans la Forêt, Cyclop – Kopf («Credit Suisse Berne»), 1969, Museum Tinguely, Basel

All about the wheel
Film extracts of: Roland Petit, L’Éloge de la Folie, 1966 © Roland Petit

Company of Louis Von Roll’s iron works, steel mills and forges, Gerlafingen, 1908

Casthouse in Olten; for the long distances between the material stores and the workplace, Tinguely borrowed a bike from a guard; in: Künstlerwerkplatz Industrie, Von Roll AG , Gerlafingen (Ed.), Zurich, Munich: Artemis, 1990, photo © Leonardo Bezzola

Engines in factory building, Von Roll, Gerlafingen, September 1999; Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv

Josef Imhof, in the background Jean Tinguely and Heidi Tagliavini from the Swiss Embassy, Moscow, 1990, in: Tschau Sepp, ed. by Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2008, photo © Leonardo Bezzola

Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, and Bernhard Luginbühl, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Leonardo Bezzola

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Stiftung Luftbild Schweiz / photo: Friedli, Werner
LBS_H1-015151/CC BY-SA 4.0

Bernhard Luginbühl with „gram sculptures“ (Grammfiguren), Mötschwil, 1995 photo © Brutus Luginbühl

Video extract from: Jean Tinguely, Relief méta-mécanique sonore II, 1955, Relief méta-mécanique, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Bernhard Luginbühl and Jean Tinguely, motocross in Murten, 1979, photo © Brutus Luginbühl

Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie II, 1979, photo © Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager, Tom Bisig, Basel

Chance and precision
Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie, ca. 1990, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Installation of Méta-Harmonie II for the exhibition „Luginbühl & Tinguely“ at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, photos © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Installation views of Méta-Harmonie II in the exhibition „Jean Tinguely“ at Kunsthaus Zurich, 1982, photos © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Arman, Jean Tinguely, Rotraut Uecker, Daniel Spoerry, Jacques Villeglé and Pierre Restany the day of the signing of the „Nouveaux Réalisme” manifest in Yves Klein’s apartment, 14, rue Campagne Première, Paris, 1960 October 27, photo: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.R.20)

Constitutive declaration of the „Nouveaux Réalisme”, signed in Yves Klein’s apartment, 14, rue Campagne Première, Paris, signatures of Arman, Dufrêne, Hains, Klein, Raysse, Spoerri, Tinguely and Villeglé, AM2004-16, Restany Pierre (1930-2003) © Droits réservés, Localisation: Paris, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d‘art moderne – Centre de création industrielle, photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Migeat

Daniel Spoerri, La Table de Robert, 1961, trap picture, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

César Baldaccini, Compression ”Ricard“, 1962, Paris, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d‘art moderne – Centre de création industrielle © SBJ/ADAGP, Paris, photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Migeat

Yves Klein, performance Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris, 1960 March 9, photo: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.R.20)

Méta-Harmonies I–IV
Jean Tinguely and Josef Imhof at the artist’s studio in Neyruz during the making of Méta-Harmonie I and II, photos © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II at Kunstmuseum Basel, photo © Kunstmuseum Basel

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II with visitors at Kunstmuseum Basel, presentation of the collection, 1993, photo © Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie I, 1978, Museum Moderner Kunst , Stiftung Ludwig Wien, on loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation since 1983, installation view of the exhibition „Méta-Harmonie. Music Machines and Machine Music in Jean Tinguely’s Oeuvre“ at Museum Tinguely, 2016, Basel, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Daniel Spehr

Jean Tinguely, Méta-Harmonie II, 1979, photo © Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager, photo Tom Bisig, Basel Jean Tinguely, Pandämonium No. 1 – Méta-Harmonie 3, 1984, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Daniel Spehr

Jean Tinguely, Pandämonium No. 1 – Méta-Harmonie 3, 1984, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, installation views of the exhibition „Méta-Harmonie. Music
Machines and Machine Music in Jean Tinguely’s Oeuvre“ at Museum Tinguely, 2016, Basel, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Daniel Spehr

Making of Méta-Harmonie II at the artist’s studio in Neyruz, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Jean Tinguely, Fatamorgana – Méta-Harmonie IV, 1985, Museum Tinguely, Basel, photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Daniel Spehr

The completed Fata-Morgana (Méta-Harmonie IV) in the erstwhile foundry in Olten. Guardsman Gernot Wilfart congratulates Tinguely to his 60th birthday with a huge poster, in: Künstlerwerkplatz Industrie, Von Roll AG Gerlafingen (Ed.), Zurich, Munich: Artemis, 1990, photo © Leonardo Bezzola

Jean Tinguely during the construction of Fata-Morgana (Méta-Harmonie IV), Werk Olten, 1985, in: Künstlerwerkplatz Industrie, Von Roll AG Gerlafingen (Ed.), Zurich, Munich: Artemis, 1990, photo © Leonardo Bezzola

Installation of Méta-Harmonie II in the exhibition „Luginbühl & Tinguely“ at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, photo © Estate Leonardo Bezzola

Sound-mixing machine
Film extracts from: Es bewegt sich alles. Der Künstler Jean Tinguely, a film by Peter K. Wehrli, SRF/Sternstunden Kunst (2003)

Video extracts from: Jean Tinguely, Relief méta-mécanique sonore II, 1955, Relief méta-mécanique, Museum Tinguely, Basel

Film extract from: Schweizer Filmwochenschau, 14.10.1960 – Moderne Skulpturen

Installation of Méta-Harmonie II in the exhibition „Luginbühl & Tinguely“ at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II in the exhibition „Jean Tinguely“ at Kunsthaus Zurich, 1982, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Making of Méta-Harmonie II at the artist’s studio in Neyruz, photo © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

The whole gamut
Installation of Méta-Harmonie II (details) for the exhibition „Luginbühl & Tinguely“ at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1979, photos © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Duck and shoe
Installation views of Méta-Harmonie II with visitors in the exhibition „Jean Tinguely“ at Kunsthaus Zurich, 1982, photos © Estate of Leonardo Bezzola

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II (detail) with visitors in the exhibition „Jean Tinguely” at Tate Gallery, London, 1982, photo © Tate, London

Installation view of Méta-Harmonie II (detail) in the exhibition „Jean Tinguely“ at Kunsthaus Zurich, 1982, photo © Giosanna Crivelli

Matthias Vollmer and Regula Schweizer (3D-animations duck and shoe)

Colorful and sticky
Color tests for adhesive tapes, photo © Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager, Tom Bisig, Basel

Movement and wear
Jean Tinguely with Requiem pour une feuille morte, 1967, Museum Tinguely, Basel, photos © Monique Jacot