Daniel Spoerri died in Vienna at the age of 94, the managing director of the Spoerri exhibition house in Austria confirmed to the German Press Agency.
Daniel Spoerri, born March 27, 1930 became known as an artist, mainly through his so-called "snare pictures“ (1960s). However, his career started in the 1950s as a dancer in Bern. Later he made a name for himself as a restaurant manager (1970s) and as the founder of Eat Art ( Eat Art Galerie in Düsseldorf and several banquets). Daniel Spoerri stuck leftovers from meals on tables and made works of art that could be eaten by his guests.
Together with the artist couple Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle and others, he signed the "Manifesto of New Realism" in 1960. It were 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 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.
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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