First dancer with the Bern Opera in the 1950s, theater director, concrete poet, pioneer publisher of multiples and artists’ books, collector, creator of art restaurants, he was a singular figure between Dada, Fluxus and New Realism. Portrait by his art friends.
Daniel Spoerria mischievous eye for art, died on November 6 at the age of 94. Daniel Spoerriis a mocking plunge into the absurd, an ironic look at everyday life, a summary in heterogeneous and common objects of the universal dilemma of the human condition that takes shape in the work of an artist. “Each painting I paste is the reflection of an incredible number of deliberate, thoughtless or random actions and reactions. This dirty glass, this old alarm clock, this rusty nail, why are they there? It’s not the realism of the object that provokes me, it’s the questioning of it”.explained the master of art picnics and inventor of the “tableau-piège” in 2018 to Alexandre Devaux (Daniel Spoerri, The instinct for conversationéditions Buchet Chastel), the art historian who exhibited this Dadaist heir in Austria in 2016, alongside his friend, the acidic Roland Toporand the charming François Morellet.
“Daniel…
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