Born Daniel Issac Feinstein in Romania in 1930, Daniel Spoerri became a Swiss citizen by adoption. He was, in turn, a poet, dancer, theater director, founder of the MAT publishing house, art curator, visual artist, and restaurateur. He considered himself stateless, having lived throughout Europe, and was a man of deep, wide-ranging, and artistic friendships. Spoerri, a founding member of New Realism, is one of the major artists of the 20th century.
This richly illustrated book presents some twenty major works from the 1960s to the 1990s, brings together numerous documents, and contains texts by Catherine Francblin, Samuel Gross, and Pavel Schmidt.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Vallois Gallery, Paris, March 28–May 16, 2026.
Romanian-born Swiss visual artist, poet, publisher of concrete poetry, former prima ballerina at the Stadttheater Bern, stage director, founding member of the Nouveau Réalisme, friend of Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri (1930-2024) is one of the most important representatives of object art, considered the inventor of Eat Art.
Edited by Marianne Le Métayer.
Texts by Sam Gross, Catherine Francblin, Pavel Schmidt, Daniel Spoerri, Noma Copley, Otto Hahn et Alain Jacquet, Pierre Restany, Jacques Villeglé.
