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This painting, «Musée des Aigles Modernes 5», is part of the collection of the Davis Museum Barcelona, a mini-museum of contemporary art I founded in 2009. The work engages in an intertextual dialogue with Marcel Broodthaers’ «Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles» (1968–72). In particular, it responds to his 1972 Düsseldorf exhibition, «Section des Figures: Der Adler vom Oligozän bis heute» («Figures Section: The Eagle from the Oligocene to the Present»), where Broodthaers borrowed Gerhard Richter’s painting «Adler» (Eagle) to poetically and ironically destabilize the institutional authority of the museum. My piece, created four decades later, continues this conceptual thread, positioning itself as a hypothetical contribution to that «Section».
Formally, the work is influenced by Gerhard Richter’s blurred photographic paintings from the 1960s. Like Richter, I begin with archival images—press clippings, anonymous photographs—which I project and draw onto canvas, then partially erase, allowing the figure to oscillate between recognizability and abstraction.
Beyond its material execution, the painting reflects critically on artists who institutionalized their own practices: Marcel Duchamp’s «Boîte-en-valise», Robert Filliou’s «Galerie Légitime», and Marcel Broodthaers’ «Département des Aigles» are direct precedents of the Davis Museum Barcelona. Conceived symbolically inside a ballot box and disseminated primarily through social media, the Davis Museum is simultaneously a «readymade» sculpture, a portable contemporary art collection, a digital archive, and a cultural entity officially recognized by the Government of Catalonia. This work belongs to its «Paintings Section», the only part of the museum where artworks are available for sale.
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Peso | 2,5 kg |
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Dimensiones | 3 × 40 × 40 cm |