Tristan Tzara was a Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolul with Ion Vinea and painter Marcel Janco.
Portrait of Tristan Tzara, by Robert Delaunay (1923)
The Chemarea circle in 1915. From left: Tzara, M. H. Maxy, Ion Vinea, and Jacques G. Costin
Cabaret Voltaire plaque commemorating the birth of Dada
Tzara (second from right) in the 1920s, with Margaret C. Anderson, Jane Heap, and John Rodker
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art.
Conceptual work by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960. Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void).
Revived Cabaret Voltaire on the Spiegelgasse street 1 in Zürich, 2011
Original plaque of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich
Original poster of the first function of the Cabaret Voltaire, by Marcel Słodki (1916)