Marcel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q.

04.06.2022 - 03.09.2022

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg [Villa Kast], Salzburg / Österreich

Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg presents selected works by Marcel Duchamp in the Annex building of the gallery, on view in parallel with the ongoing exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg’s Japanese Clayworks. Duchamp and Rauschenberg shared a close friendship and maintained a lively artistic exchange over many years. In 1959, Rauschenberg acquired Duchamp’s Bottle Rack for his personal collection, a work Duchamp referred to as his first readymade (now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago). For Duchamp, the ideas embodied in a work of art were of greater importance than the physical work itself.... To this effect, he said: ‘A duplicate or a mechanical repetition has the same value as the original.’ When it came to incorporating unorthodox materials into his works – many of which have fetishistic associations – Duchamp was one of the most adventurous among his contemporaries.

[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20220727095141/https://ropac.net/exhibitions/624-marcel-duchamp-l.h.o.o.q./]