Daniel Spoerri was born in 1930, was a Swiss artist. He was a part of the New Realism art movement,
his use of the everyday life as the main subject in his art, reflects his involvement in the New Realism
movement.
But he wasn’t only involved in the New Realism movement, he is also closely associated with the
Fluxus movement. Most of his works are about food, he
himself calls this ‘’eat art’’. One way he makes his art are
snare pictures, he says these snare pictures are ‘’objects,
which are found in randomly orderly or disorderly
situations, are mounted on whatever they are found on
(table, box, drawer, etc.) in the exact constellation they
are found in(...). By declaring the result to be a tableau,
the horizontal becomes vertical. For example: the
leftovers of a meal are mounted on the table and the
table is then hung on a wall (...)” he has made a lot of these snare pictures.
For example
Another example of his ‘’eat art’’ are these containers
of canned food, which he had bought in a regular store,
and he had rubber stamped and signed these
containers of canned food.