Museum Tinguely
The Museum Tinguely in Basel is an art museum that shows the life and works of the artist Jean Tinguely in a permanent exhibition . It opened on October 3, 1996.
The museum is located in the Solitudepark on the right bank of the Rhine and is a gift from F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG to the city and the Basel region on the occasion of the company's 100th anniversary. In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are also changing guest exhibitions by Tinguely's friends or well-known artists.
Museum building
The building was built by the Ticino architect Mario Botta . There is space for up to twenty works by Tinguely in the central hall alone. A special feature is the south side of the museum - an elongated, raised building that seems detached from the main part. It is a kind of promenade over the banks of the Rhine that the museum visitor has to pass, his gaze is then drawn to the course of the river.
The high facade on the east side, which forms the highest point of the building with three exhibition floors above ground, acts like a noise barrier to the neighboring road bridge. The north side runs parallel to Grenzacherstrasse. Here, between the street and the museum, a covered space has been created as access to the park and the museum. The museum consists of five connected structures, three of which open onto the park via large windows. Inside, the museum space is divided by walls that can be pulled up. The exhibition areas consist of four differently designed areas on four different floors. The first floor can be reached via the "Rheinpromenade"; which is open to the ground floor on one side and has exhibition rooms on the other. From the end of this corridor you get to another floor with “classic” rooms. From here it goes down to a floor three meters below the ground floor, in the rooms of which the works are housed that do not require daylight to present their effect. The visitor tour ends on the ground floor with the "monumental sculptures". They are in the largest exhibition room in the museum (30 × 60 m), which can be divided into five areas.
collection
The museum's collection comes from a gift from the artist's widow, Niki de Saint Phalle , from the Roche collection as well as from several other large and small donations and purchases.
The museum's collection includes works from all phases and groups of works by Jean Tinguely. Together with loans, they provide a comprehensive overview of the artist's work. In addition to the sculptures, there are a large number of drawings and letter drawings, documents, exhibition posters, catalogs and documentation as well as photographs in the collection. All works are - as far as possible - accessible to the public and are shown regularly both in the permanent exhibition in the Museum Tinguely and as loans in exhibitions all over the world.
Directors
- 1996–2000: Margrit Hahnloser (founding director: Pontus Hultén )
- 2001-2009: Guido Magnaguagno
- since 2009: Roland Wetzel
See also
literature
- Richard Ingersoll, Sergio Polano, Lutz Windhöfel , Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus, Jean-Yves Mock u. a .: Mario Botta. Museum Jean Tinguely Basel. Benteli 1997, ISBN 978-3-7165-1080-3 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '33 " N , 7 ° 36' 44" E ; CH1903: 613,066 / 267620