Boîte-en-valise #5
Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise is reactivated here as a contemporary pictorial proposition, where painting becomes portable archive, memory structure, and self-authored museum. The blurred image resists full legibility, situating the work between document, disappearance, and painterly reconstruction. Within The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona, the painting extends a lineage of artist-founded institutional critique through contemporary figurative painting.
The Ashish Mistry Collection, Atlanta, USA.
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Davis Lisboa, Boîte-en-valise #5, 2017. Oil on linen, 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm (11.81 × 11.81 × 1.38 in).
Boîte-en-valise #5 is part of an ongoing body of work that examines the notion of the artist-authored museum. Its conceptual origin lies in Boîte-en-valise (1936–1941) by Marcel Duchamp, the portable compendium through which Duchamp condensed his oeuvre into a single, transportable structure. Lisboa reactivates this gesture as a contemporary framework, extending its logic with clarity and restraint.
The painting engages with the visual language of Gerhard Richter, particularly in its shifting relationship to memory and image. Forms remain suspended between appearance and erasure, allowing the subject to resist full legibility. This controlled ambiguity defines the work’s atmosphere and reinforces its conceptual precision.
Positioned within a broader historical continuum, the work aligns with practices that reconceive the museum as a self-defined structure, including Boîte-en-valise, La galerie légitime by Robert Filliou, and Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles by Marcel Broodthaers. From this lineage emerges Davis Museum Barcelona, conceived by the artist as both institutional form and conceptual work, within which this painting operates as image, record, and display.
Executed in oil on linen, the work affirms painting’s material and historical depth while maintaining a refined tonal surface. The square format echoes the museum’s cubic structure, and the blue palette extends its visual identity into the pictorial field. The composition achieves a measured coherence in which form, concept, and system remain in equilibrium.
The Ashish Mistry Collection, Atlanta, USA.
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| Weight | 2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm |
