Boîte-hors-de-valise 8
A painting of notable conceptual precision that reinterprets Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise through the language of painting. Developed in a refined range of blues, the work combines a rigorous formal and chromatic economy with a subtle technique based on light veils and softened contours. Positioned between still life and archive, it condenses the idea of the museum into a portable form, articulated through a restrained, precise, and open-ended pictorial approach.
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Davis Lisboa, Boîte-hors-de-valise 8, 2018. Oil on linen, 50 × 50 × 3.5 cm (19.7 × 19.7 × 1.38 in).
The painting presents an open portable structure, suspended within an indeterminate space, where representation oscillates between object and pictorial archive. The image is organized through a rigorous chromatic economy, developed in a range of blues that unifies the scene and redirects attention toward the conceptual dimension of the motif.
The work is articulated as a still life of Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise—the suitcase produced between 1935 and 1941 containing miniature reproductions of his works, conceived as a portable museum. Here, this reference is translated into a synthetic pictorial architecture, where interior and exterior interpenetrate and the act of display emerges as the central subject of the image.
Formally, the surface is built through thin layers and veils that evoke the transparency of watercolor, allowing the painting to breathe and expand across the support. Contours dissolve with precision, situating the image within an unstable threshold between appearance and disappearance, between memory and inscription.
Integrated into The Paintings Section of Davis Museum Barcelona, the work forms part of a body of work that operates as both collection and expanded archive, centered on artists who have conceived their own museums. In this context, the painting does not simply depict an object; it activates a museological structure in itself—compact, reproducible, and open to multiple readings.
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| Weight | 3.3 kg |
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| Dimensions | 50 × 50 × 3.5 cm |
