Marcel Broodthaers 28
The work brings together three archival photographs from Broodthaers’s fictional museum, uniting distinct moments and founding gestures within a single composition.
Its fragmented structure reorganizes these scenes into a painterly montage that intersects document and reinterpretation.
Within “The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona”, it forms part of a reflection on artist-created museums within contemporary figurative painting.
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This work draws on three archival photographs tied to Marcel Broodthaers’s fictional museum. The first shows him on the beach at De Haan (1969), founding the Section Documentaire with an ephemeral gesture in the sand. The second depicts him seated with a folding chair during the launch of the Section Cinéma at Burgplatz 12, Düsseldorf (1971), where projection subverted museological display. The third is the iconic image of a taxidermied eagle beside a painting in the Section des Figures at the Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (1972), dismantling symbols of artistic authority. Formally, the painting echoes Picasso’s Three Musicians, reconfiguring its structure into a critical topography of signs. Each work acts as archive, document, and museological fragment, reflecting on artist-museums by Duchamp, Filliou, and Broodthaers. Painted in oil on linen with Old Holland pigments, its square format mirrors the cubic shape of the Davis Museum Barcelona, a recognized portable institution.
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| Weight | 5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3 × 80 × 80 cm |
