Davy between painting, photography

September 11, 2008

“In his letter to Alfred Steiglitz — the father of American photography — Marcel Duchamp wrote: “You know exactly how I feel about photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable.” The letter is dated May 22, 1922.”

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Duchamp: “Sixteen Miles of String” (1942)

September 11, 2008

“Duchamp bought 16 miles of string, of which only one mile was used, to prepare an entanglement in which the visitor experienced difficulties in finding his way to the paintings, a metaphor for the difficulties which the layman often encounters in the attempt to understand modern painting”

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Ducham en Barcelona

September 11, 2008 "See video of new "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia" exhibition in Spain .. read more...

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia Exhibit at Museo Nacional D’Art de Catalunya

September 11, 2008 "BARCELONA - This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Together they created the Dada movement in New York during the First World War, and, unusually within the history of modern art, they remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives. On view 26 June through 21 September, 2008." Visit Museo .. read more...

Wee exhibit, big scandal

September 11, 2008 "Which is perhaps why Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the curator of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, has placed Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel right at the centre of her huge line-up of contemporary art in this year's Biennale program, to which she has attached the slogan "Revolution - Forms that Turn" as her overriding theme. 'A revolution is a turn and a return,' she says. ' It is also a sudden shift in perspective, a turning of perspectives, which is what Duchamp has done. So with this .. read more...

Marsden Hartley exhibit at Amon Carter shows darker vision of the West

September 11, 2008

“[Marsden] Hartley returned to New York City in 1919, where he became an unlikely member of the Société Anonyme, the avant-garde group headed by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Katherine Dreier. Hartley was attracted to the freedom of the group, but he was at heart a much more traditional artist and he lasted only seven months.”

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PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP: A COLLECTORS’ PRIZE

September 11, 2008 "The Marcel Duchamp Prize was created in 2000 by the ADIAF, (Association for the international distribution of French art), the largest group of private and amateur contemporary art collectors in France, as an initiative, amongst others, for promoting French artists internationally. Its aim is to encourage all new art forms that stimulate contemporary creation, and to give recognition to a promising artist living in France and working in the domain of the visual and plastic a.. read more...

Duchamp pipe for Enrico Donati

September 11, 2008

"Marcel Duchamp carved a wooden pipe for Donati.

Enrico Donati was a close friend of Marcel Duchamp, as well as a fellow surrealist painter.

Donati says that there is no story behind this pipe and that it was given to him by Duchamp as a token of their friendship."

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Marcel Duchamp’s famous statement on creativity

September 11, 2008 "Marcel Duchamp, "The Creative Act" statement : "Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity... All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even mo.. read more...