The Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) was best known for his kinetic art—sculptural machines that powerfully satirized 20th-century automation. Active, noisy, colorful, chaotic, Tinguely’s wheels, gears, and bits of imagery are arranged into contraptions both delicate and monstrous, comic and poetic. “To understand my work,” he once said, you must abandon preconceived notions of what art should be.” This major Milan exhibition is the most extensive survey since the artist’s death at 66, in 1991. More than 30 seminal pieces will be on view. —Elena Clavarino