Marcel Duchamp 6
A compact oil painting revisiting Tonsure, Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray through a restrained, monochrome blue surface. The image is softened and condensed, shifting from photographic reference to painterly presence.
Working through appropriation, Davis Lisboa translates a canonical image into a material and perceptual register, where clarity gives way to density. Part of an ongoing series on artist-built institutional frameworks, the work situates itself within a contemporary, self-constructed archive.
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Davis Lisboa, Marcel Duchamp 6, 2016. Oil on canvas, 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm (11.8 × 11.8 × 1.38 in).
The painting revisits Tonsure, Marcel Duchamp, a photograph by Man Ray, translating it into a painterly form. The image remains legible, condensed into a compact structure where clarity is softened but not lost.
Rendered in a monochrome blue tied to the institutional color of the Davis Museum Barcelona, the surface establishes a measured distance from its source. The image no longer functions as a document, but as painting.
The work operates through appropriation: an existing image is reconfigured through its shift in medium. Photographic precision is replaced by a slower, material presence.
It belongs to a series focused on artists who developed their own institutional frameworks—such as Marcel Duchamp with Boîte-en-valise, Robert Filliou with Galerie Légitime, and Marcel Broodthaers with Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles—extending these positions into a contemporary, self-constructed archive.
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| Weight | 2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm |
