SPOERRI, Daniel (Galati, 1930)Le Cabinet anatomique de Daniel Spoerri

Daniel Spoerri is a Romanian (Daniel Feinstein, Galati, 1930) naturalised Swiss dancer, painter and choreographer. A multifaceted artist, he began with dance in 1952 in Paris and in Berne where he was danseur-étoile at the Berner Stadttheater between 1954 and 1957. In the same years, he began his work as a choreographer and director and came to prominence as a poet, publishing a series of Concrete Poems. As a figurative artist, he began his activity in Paris, inventing tableaux-pièges, everyday objects glued onto boards, which were to become the hallmark of his art. In 1960 he drafted the Nouveau Réalisme Manifesto with the critic Pierre Restany and other artists. Arturo Schwarz organised his first solo exhibition in 1961 in Milan.  Spoerri is the creator of the Eat Art movement, which he founded in 1967 and with which he intended to initiate a critical reflection on the fundamental principles of nutrition.
His major exhibitions include the 1972 retrospective at the National Centre of Contemporary Art in Paris and a second retrospective, to honour his 30-year artistic career, at the Centre Georges Pompidou. (Daniel Spoerri - Retrospective, 1990), which was later transferred to other European cities: Antibes, Munich, Vienna, Geneva. In 1993, France awarded him the Grand Prix National de la Sculpture.