Daniel Spoerri became known for tableaux-pièges, or 'snare pictures,' in which the remains of meals and ordinary tabletop arrangements were fixed in place and turned vertically onto the wall. He later developed Eat Art projects that treated cooking, eating and social exchange as artistic media.
Assemblage; installation; performance
Major Works
- 1960Kichka’s Breakfast
- 1964Hahn’s Supper
- 1959–60Prose Poems
- 1968Restaurant Spoerri
- 1970Eat Art Gallery
- 1991Sevilla Series No. 27
- 1960sThe Trap Pictures
- 1960sBread Dough Objects
- 1960Fallen Picture
- 1997 onwardIl Giardino di Daniel Spoerri
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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