Le Cyclop of Milly-la-Forêt, France - Artists: Jean Tinguely & Niki de Saint Phalle and friends - 1969-1994
In the sleepy village of Milly-la-Forêt, France, lies a monstrous, whimsical monument called Le Cyclop - Cyclops - . Measuring almost 75 feet high, the unusual sculpture took 30 years to complete by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. With the help of his wife Niki de Saint Phalle and various friends Arman, César, Marcel Duchamp, and JR Soto, the husband and wife team resurrected the piece out of a chaos of 300 tons of industrial debris - metal, concrete, ceramic mosaic, stones - mirrors and a waterfall. Visitors are invited to explore the complexity of the piece via a network of staircases and catwalks. Owned by the French state since 1991 upon Tinguely's death, Le Cyclop has been described as both "enchanting and nightmarish" to upkeep. Apart from vandals and the hostility of the weather, the wheels alone cost almost one million francs a year to maintain, and it has given the state much difficulty, especially for a sculpture whose purpose, said Tinguely, was to one day disappear.
Seventy-four feet high, and 350 tons of steel! The huge body-less Head, glittering with mirrors, with a single eye, a mouth from which water trickles onto a toboggan tongue, and an ear weighing a ton, houses in its midst a surprising world where spectators are invited to follow a maze-like itinerary to discover varied and complementary works, acoustic sculptures, a small automatic theatre and, where the brain would be, some tremendous machinery with scrap-iron gears, as intriguing as they are eclectic. This extremely rich opus encompasses four art movements: Dada, Nouveau Réalisme (new realism), Kinetic Art and Art brut. Swiss artist Jean Tinguely’s Le Cyclop, also known as “The Head” or “The Monster in the Forest”, is a unique monument in the history of contemporary art.
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