the Situationist International (SI) au Musée Tinguely de Bâle
Internationale situationniste, The Destruction of RSG-6, Odense 1963. Collage / target practice sheet : 27 x 24 cm. Private collection. Photo: Ingo Herrmann, ghr-visuell, Karlsruhe
BASEL.- The Museum Tinguely will be showing through August 5, 2007, an extensive exhibition developed in cooperation with the Centraal Museum Utrecht on one of the least known yet most influential (anti)art movements of the post war era: the Situationist International (SI).
The last of the international avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, which was centred in Paris, existed from 1957 to 1972 with a total of seventy-two European, American, and North African members at various times. The guiding figure of the SI was Guy-Ernest Debord (1931–94), the exhibition is organized around his biography. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19805
Asger Jorn, L’avantgarde se rend pas (Modification), 1962, Oil / canvas : 73 x 60 cm. Collection P. und M. Alechinsky. © 2007 Pro Litteris, 8033 Zürich. Photo: anonymous.