sculpture: part of 'gismo' (1960) By Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) in the Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam

not actually a rusty bicycle but it looks as though Jean Tinguely may have used numerous parts from them

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss artist who began experimenting with mechanical sculptures in the late 1930s, hanging objects from the ceiling and using a motor to make them rotate. after world war 2 he began painting in a Surrealist manner, but he soon abandoned painting to concentrate on sculpture. he is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. in 1970, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of Nouveau Réalisme, he built a gigantic phallus (ht 8 m), which he exploded outside Milan cathedral. he also built a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), which only partially self-destructed at the museum of modern art in New York City, although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas 
Tinguely married fellow Swiss artist Eva Aeppli in 1951. in 1971, Tinguely married his second wife Niki de Saint Phalle

the whole 'gismo' sculpture