Adina Kamien
Senior Curator of Modern Art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Phone: +972-2-6708014
Address: The Israel Museum
POB 71117
Jerusalem 91710
Israel
Phone: +972-2-6708014
Address: The Israel Museum
POB 71117
Jerusalem 91710
Israel
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The 1964 editioned replicas of the readymades sent shock waves through the art world. Even though the replicas undermined ideas of authorship and problematized the notion of identity and the artist, they paradoxically shared in the aura of the originals, becoming stand-ins for the readymades. Scholar-poet-dealer Arturo Schwarz played a crucial role, opening the door to joint or alternate authorship―an outstanding relationship between artist and dealer. By unearthing previously unpublished correspondence and documentary materials and combining this material with newly conducted exclusive interviews with key participants, Remaking the Readymade details heretofore unrevealed aspects of the technical processes involved in the (re)creation of iconic, long-lost Dada objects.
Launched on the heels of the centenary of Duchamp’s Fountain, this new analysis intensifies and complicates our understanding of Duchamp and Man Ray’ initial conceptions, and raises questions about replication and authorship that will stimulate significant debate about the legacy of the artists, the continuing significance of their works, and the meaning of terms such as creativity, originality, and value in the formation of art.
Works by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol, to Louise Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum, Yayoi Kusama, and Alina Szapocznikow, trigger new thoughts and perspectives on the familiar. Visitors at the exhibition, designed in the spirit of an architectural plan, play the part of the family, and the “domestic space” challenges the legacy of the modernist white cube. This curatorial choice underscores the spiritual legacy of concepts developed from Dada to today, from the readymade to a contemporary exploration of migration, displacement, and the artist’s itinerancy in an age of globalization.