Daniel Spoerri
Luncheon Table in All Eternity
snare-picture
Luncheon Table in All Eternity
snare-picture
1994
69 x 68 x 20 cm
bronze
Most art connoisseurs associate the name Daniel Spoerri with the pieces known as »snare-pictures«. In the early 1960s, Spoerri followed his own assertion: »I glue objects in their coincidental arrangement in such a way onto their various surfaces that they cannot be moved.« This was a programme counter to the notion of artworks as individual creations. The »Nouveau Réalisme« , whose manifesto was signed by such artists as Yves Klein, Arman and Spoerri in Paris just a little later, aimed to show the world as it is and to resist the myth of the creative artistic genius. A »snare-image« could be produced by anybody. It did not require the »signature« of an artist. Daniel Spoerri had two snare-pictures cast in bronze for the Giardino (Nos 6 and 7).