Musée des Aigles Modernes 1

Inspired by a documentary photograph depicting a small children’s piano within the “Section Cinéma” of the “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles” (Düsseldorf, 1971–1972), this painting engages with the critical tradition of artists who founded their own museums. Formally, it evokes the photographic paintings of Gerhard Richter from the 1960s, where projected images on canvas are blurred through material veils to the point of abstraction. The work belongs to “The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona”, a series that extends the genealogy initiated by Marcel Duchamp with “Boîte-en-valise” (1936–1941), Robert Filliou with “La galerie légitime” (1962–1963), and Marcel Broodthaers with “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles” (1968–1972). The Davis Museum, founded within a ballot box and disseminated digitally, is at once a ready-made sculpture, fictive archive, portable museum, and a cultural entity officially recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya.