Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri

DANIEL SPOERRI
Born 27th March, 1930. In 1942 Daniel Spoerri´s father died. Flight to Switzerland with the rest of the family. Training as a ballet-dancer. In 1959 Spoerri goes to Paris where his career as an artist starts. First he worked on the subject of multiplication of works of art (edits the “Mat – Edition”). Spoerri became internationally known for his invention of the “snare-picture”. He was one of the founding members of the “Nouveaux Réalistes”. Besides his assemblages Spoerri invented the “Eat-Art” (Restaurant Spoerri and Eat-Art Gallery in Dusseldorf, Germany, in the Sixties; several banquettes; author of the “Gastronomic Diary”). His book “An anecdoted Topography of Chance” has become especially important for object art.
A special website for D.S. is under construction.

1
Renaissance, 1987/1991
bronze; 320 cm x 41 cm x 40 cm

2
Marble Table, 1992
legs of bronze fragments; 80 cm x 240 cm x 167 cm

3
Circle of Unicorns, 1991
9 bronze elements; each: 250 cm x 40 cm x 50 cm,
diameter of the whole installation: 8 m

4
Idol, 1990
bronze; 120 cm x 90 cm

5
No entry without slippers, 1986
bronze; 143 cm x 50 cm

6
Eternal Breakfast, 1994
bronze; diametre 63 cm

7
Lunch forever, 1994
bronze; 69 cm x 68 cm

8
Meat-grinder Fountain, 1962 - 1991
bronze; 325 cm x 210 cm

9
Cup, 1991
bronze und medieval capitals of Veronesian marble;
71cm x 93 cm, diametre 104 cm

10
Players, 1985
7 bronze elements; each figure: ca. 150 cm x 140 cm, whole installation: 8 m x 8m

11
The Jury, 1985
12 bronce pieces and stairway

12
“Die Grazierinnen“, 1992
7 bronze elements; each: ca. 180 cm x 35 cm, installation: 5 m x 8 m

13
Warriors of the Night, 1982
13 bronze elements; each: 136 cm x 90 cm, whole installation: 8m x 6m

16
Tintin - Elephant, 1993
bronze; 194 cm x 80 cm

17
Tree of Skulls, 1993
bronze; 130 cm x 150 cm

18
Bunch of Flowers, 1994
iron, mirror, marble; 210 cm x 90 cm

20
The Devil and the Shameless, 1985/1997
bronze, stone, barbed wire;
devil: 165 cm x 44 cm, the shameless: 65 cm x 100 cm

19
The Beauty and the Beast, 1985/1996
2 bronze elements;
Beauty: 40 cm x 35 cm, Beast: 206 cm x 46 cm

22
Santo Grappa, 1970
bronze; 180 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm

24
Little Werwolf, 1997
bronze; 181 cm x 25 cm

26
Chapel of Skulls, 1997
Collection of Tibetan monks´ skulls, Coptic and Egyptian heads and monkeys´ skulls with various caps of different cultures
3m x 4m x 5m

28
Poet´s Tomb, 1997
stone, ivy, bronze; 90 cm x 120 cm x 100 cm

29
Aviary with Sleeping Birds, 1997
Collection of „natures mortes“ by different artists of the 19th/20th cent.
brick wall, iron, bronze; height: 2m, diameter: 3m

30
Greenhouse for Electric Flowers, 1997
aluminium, flower pots, light-bulbs; 250 cm x 184 cm x 204cm

31
Courtship Display, 1992
2 bronze elements;
female, height: 196 cm, boy, height: 150 cm

35
Grass sofa, 1985/1993
Iron structure, earth, grass, 129 cm x 279 cm x 80 cm

36
Labyrinthic mural path, 1996/1998
stones, grass; 60 m x 40 m, Höhe 50 cm

37
Voyeur, 1996/1998
Platform and three pedestals in the distance, that can be seen through the telescope: Bullock´s head; Snow Angel; “Dreifuß”;
telescope, iron, bronze; 320 cm x 160 cm x 300 cm

42
Chamber No. 13, Hotel Carcasonne, Rue Mouffetard 24, Paris 1959-1965, 1998
Bronze; 250 cm x 300 cm x 500 cm

54
Smoking Heads; Trullo, 1999/2000
stones, bronze; diameter: 2m, height: 3,50m

66
Mass Grave of Clones, 2000
bronze, brick wall; 9 m x 2 m
figures, each: 180 cm x 50 cm x 30 cm

67
Pyramid with Woman on a Knot, 1999/2001
iron, bronze; 5 x 5 x 5m x 3.50m

73
Eight Skinny Nightmares, 2003
8 bronze elements; height of figures: 110 cm - 200 cm
area of whole installation: 14 m x 8 m

77
Bersagliera, 2002/2003
bronze; height 200cm

84
A garden of urns, 2005 – L’abstrait absent; Hommage à Raymond Hains
an area of about 6 x 3 m with canes, urns and tomatoes