Musée des Aigles Modernes 9
A quietly arresting painting based on Marcel Broodthaers’ fictional museum, where empty crates and a ladder become a distilled image of absence, display, and institutional memory. Rendered in a muted palette and diffused light, the work brings together conceptual precision and painterly restraint.
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Davis Lisboa, Musée des Aigles Modernes 9, 2021. Oil on canvas, 60 × 60 × 3.5 cm (23.6 × 23.6 × 1.38 in).
Based on a documentary photograph of Marcel Broodthaers’ fictional museum in Brussels, this painting revisits the section Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Section XIXème Siècle through a language of restraint, atmosphere, and spatial precision. Rather than reconstructing the original installation, Lisboa translates it into a self-contained image in which the museum appears as both subject and structure.
Empty crates and a ladder define a scene marked by stillness, absence, and quiet dislocation. By omitting the nineteenth-century reproductions present in the original display, the composition becomes more distilled, allowing the spatial logic of the installation to emerge with greater clarity and tension.
A muted palette and diffused light give the work its measured, introspective tone. The absence of figures heightens the sense of suspension, directing attention toward the architecture of display and the subtle emotional charge of the space itself.
The painting is part of The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona, an ongoing project in which painting becomes a site for rethinking exhibition, memory, and the symbolic language of the museum.
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| Weight | 4.4 kg |
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| Dimensions | 60 × 60 × 3.5 cm |
