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Exhibition Marcel Duchamp, Proa
Bueno Aires, Argentina 2008

program Exhibition on Marcel Duchamp work

size sqm 1000

The exhibition design’s main goal is to underline M.D.’s being the first “conceptual” artist.

Programs, be they written or spoken words, are already artworks beside execution, that becomes a “perfunctory affair”, and physical results, that are always affected by the “retinic” danger.

Artworks will be exhibited in the center of the exhibition rooms, floating on especially designed “islands” painted in white, something between icebergs and tectonic conformations; This centric insulation underlines the sense of instability that the specific physical outcome has in relation with all the possible outcomes that could have been, given the conceptual preliminaries.

Words, will be on the upper part of the walls in big-format graphics, in written form of phrases, assessments, aphoristic statements, description of artworks by Duchamp himself. This in some way could be defined as "verbal artwork", clearing up in immediate way the founding role of M.D. in conceptual art and the equivalence between the program and the execution of physical artwork.

Exhibition Marcel Duchamp, Proa
Bueno Aires, Argentina 2008

program Exhibition on Marcel Duchamp work

size sqm 1000

The exhibition design’s main goal is to underline M.D.’s being the first “conceptual” artist.

Programs, be they written or spoken words, are already artworks beside execution, that becomes a “perfunctory affair”, and physical results, that are always affected by the “retinic” danger.

Artworks will be exhibited in the center of the exhibition rooms, floating on especially designed “islands” painted in white, something between icebergs and tectonic conformations; This centric insulation underlines the sense of instability that the specific physical outcome has in relation with all the possible outcomes that could have been, given the conceptual preliminaries.

Words, will be on the upper part of the walls in big-format graphics, in written form of phrases, assessments, aphoristic statements, description of artworks by Duchamp himself. This in some way could be defined as "verbal artwork", clearing up in immediate way the founding role of M.D. in conceptual art and the equivalence between the program and the execution of physical artwork.