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Death "Food artist" Daniel Spoerri dies at the age of 94

SDA

7.11.2024 - 09:28

On his 90th birthday, the artist Daniel Spoerri was last prominently represented in an exhibition at the Tinguely Museum in Basel in 2020. He became famous for turning food into art. He died in Vienna on Wednesday at the age of 94. (archive picture)
On his 90th birthday, the artist Daniel Spoerri was last prominently represented in an exhibition at the Tinguely Museum in Basel in 2020. He became famous for turning food into art. He died in Vienna on Wednesday at the age of 94. (archive picture)
Keystone

Daniel Spoerri became famous for his paintings made from leftover food with dirty cutlery and crockery. On Wednesday, he died in Vienna at the age of 94, the managing director of the Spoerri exhibition house in Austria confirmed to the German Press Agency.

Keystone-SDA

07.11.2024, 09:28

Daniel Spoerri stuck leftovers from meals on tables and made works of art that could be eaten by his guests: He was the founder of "Eat Art".

Together with the artist couple Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle and others, he signed the "Manifesto of New Realism" in 1960. It was primarily object artists who used trivial objects and thus wanted to question concepts such as "art" and "artwork".

Spoerri was born in Romania in 1930. His family fled from the Nazis to Zurich in 1942. In the 1950s, he turned to the visual arts.

Spoerri moved to Austria in 2008. In Hadersdorf am Kamp in Lower Austria, he opened the Spoerri exhibition house and an associated restaurant in 2009.

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