Daniel Spoerri

Daniel Spoerri the name of his uncle, spent his childhood in Switzerland where, very young, he befriended Jean Tinguely.
In 1960, while collecting scrap for Tinguely, he had the paste objects collected in bulk on a support that rallied to the vertical, thus setting a time device for a moment due to chance. It was the birth of his paintings traps which mainly immortalize reliefs meals, as is the case for the Hungarian meal and other dinners exposure 723 kitchen utensils. The company culminates with the opening of a restaurant Permanent Spoerri Dusseldorf in 1968. (see art symposium return of the assembly)
With the tables traps, Spoerri develops the idea of détrompe the eye, works in which he combines a classic table illusionist, a chromo, "with objects whose function is to demystify this image, the relegating among the objects of the banality.

it also produced a series of collages mounting classics.
Spoerri reveals the beauty of objects and assemble the parts which could have a common past. Their assembly seems a small operation, but there lies the art. First research, then sort of found objects that have a common history and to finish the assembly of parts of the most successful.