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Készült / Made: 1996
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Le Cyclop - Milly-la-Forêt, France - Artists: Jean Tinguely & Niki de Saint Phalle and friends.
In the sleepy village of Milly-la-Forêt, France, lies a monstrous, whimsical monument called Le Cyclop. Measuring 22 metres high, the unusual sculpture took 30 years to complete by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. With the help of his wife Niki de Saint Phalle and various friends Arman, César, Marcel Duchamp, and JR Soto, the husband and wife team resurrected the piece out of a chaos of 300 tons of industrial debris - metal, concrete, ceramic mosaic, stones - mirrors and a waterfall. Visitors are invited to explore the complexity of the piece via a network of staircases and catwalks. Owned by the French state since 1991 upon Tinguely's death, Le Cyclop has been described as both "enchanting and nightmarish" to upkeep. Apart from vandals and the hostility of the weather, the wheels alone cost a lot to maintain, and it has given the state much difficulty, especially for a sculpture whose purpose, said Tinguely, was to one day disappear.
The huge body-less Head, glittering with mirrors, with a single eye, a mouth from which water trickles onto a toboggan tongue, and an ear weighing a ton, houses in its midst a surprising world where spectators are invited to follow a maze-like itinerary to discover varied and complementary works, acoustic sculptures, a small automatic theatre and, where the brain would be, some tremendous machinery with scrap-iron gears, as intriguing as they are eclectic. This extremely rich opus encompasses four art movements: Dada, Nouveau Réalisme (new realism), Kinetic Art and Art brut. With Le Cyclop, Jean Tinguely wanted to create a non-standard construction, exceptional in size, artistic complexity and technical ingeniousness, as well as being unusually sited in the Forest of Milly. But “The Head” is, above all else, the outcome of a collective venture, forged from bonds of friendship, a utopia produced over many years by a “team of crazy sculptors” gathered about the personality of Jean Tinguely.
In 1969, the Cyclop project got under way in the Forest of Milly. Jean Tinguely knew that to complete his Head project, the only way was to finance the works himself; that way, he could be free to work as he wished. No architect would be involved in the construction and the artists alone gradually built this sculpture, with Herculean courage, strength and tenaciousness. It took ten years of labour to erect Le Cyclop, and fifteen more years before everyone’s contributions were installed. Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle funded the project together. In 1987, to guarantee its protection and preservation, they decided to donate Le Cyclop to the French state. In 1991, when Jean Tinguely died, Niki de Saint Phalle took it upon herself to complete the sculpture by paying for the final works, fully respecting her partner’s ideas. In May 1994, Le Cyclop was inaugurated by François Mitterrand, President of the Republic, and opened to the public. Niki de Saint Phalle then decided that Le Cyclop was finished and that no work could be added to it from then on.
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