Dedicated to Daniel Varenne's collection, the auction sell organized by PIASA's Departement of Contemporary art, on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020, will be an opportunity to honor emblematic artists of the second half of the twentieth century, including Daniel Spoerri.
The Lasi pogrom, perpetrated in 1941 by Romania, shatters the artist's father and pushes his family on the roads of exile. Through the Balkan mountains they took them to Switzerland. It was in Zurich that Daniel Isaak Feinstein, as he was called before the war, was taken in by his maternal uncle, the literature professor Theophil Spoerri (1980-1974).
At the dance school of the Zurich Opera House, then with the dancer Olga Preobrajenska (1871-1962), it is at the confluence of dance, mime and theatre that the young Daniel Spoerri spend his first years.
Shortly after his installation in Paris in 1959, he created the "MAT" editions (Multiplication of Transformable Art) and organized his first exhibition at the Edouard Gallery. The idea was to produce originals editions of kinetic objects that encouraged the spectator's intervention. Multiplied up to a hundred copies, they were numbered and signed by the artist.
Daniel Spoerri (born 1930)
Palette, (heberstof), 1989
Estimation : 15000 / 25000 €
Among the artists who contributed to it were Marcel Duchamp, Jean Tinguely, whom Daniel Spoerri met in Basel in 1949, but also Victor Vasarely, Hans Arp and Christo.
In 1960, he invented his first " trap-painting " where the passage between horizontality and verticality gave objects of everyday an unusual presence. This work led him to join the group of New Realists at its founding in 1960.
From 1963, in an attempt to transfigure the banality of a reality that the viewer no longer manages to look at as he should, he creates what he calls "the wrinkle-eye". In these heterogeneous assemblies, the artist integrates everyday objects.
From the Greek Island of Symi in 1967 to Montcel Park in Jouy-en-Josas in 1987 with artists such as César, Arman, Pierre Soulages and Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Daniel Spoerri multiplied the artistic performances.
Daniel Spoerri (born 1930)
Caisse palette, Jim Whithing, motorisée, 1989
Estimation : 15000 / 25000 €
Dated from 1986, "Box pallet, Jim Whithing, motorized" is emblematic of the artist's work. Spoerri glued together all the objects present in the workshop of the artist-inventor Jim Whithing (born in 1951). Through his "trap paintings", the artist explores the objects of his entourage, everyday and banal objects and wishes "to give to banality a power of reflection".
