Marcel Broodthaers #4 (Paintings)
A photograph of Marcel Broodthaers wearing a false nose serves as the point of departure for this portrait, where irony, self-representation, and institutional reference come into focus. Rendered through a softly blurred painterly surface, the image moves between document, memory, and reconstruction. Part of The Paintings Section from Davis Museum, the work reflects Davis Lisboa’s distinctive approach to contemporary figurative painting.
The Geert De Kegel Collection, Zele, Belgium.
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Davis Lisboa, Marcel Broodthaers #4 (Paintings), 2016. Oil on canvas, 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm (11.81 × 11.81 × 1.38 in)
Part of The Paintings Section from Davis Museum, this work belongs to the portrait series in which Davis Lisboa engages artists whose practices are closely bound to institutional form, self-representation, and the museum as artistic structure. In Marcel Broodthaers #4 (Paintings), the image is distilled through a restrained painterly language and a precise economy of means.
The composition is based on a photograph of Marcel Broodthaers wearing a plastic clown nose, taken during the filming of his experimental work Un Voyage à Waterloo (Napoléon 1769–1969). In the image, the artist stands before the rear doors of an art transport truck. Lisboa repositions this reference within painting, where the image is slowed, condensed, and rearticulated as surface.
Built through subtle tonal modulation, the painting gives particular weight to the vibration of the brushwork and the control of chromatic range. The introduction of blue marks a development within the series and establishes a direct relation to the visual identity of Davis Museum.
Intimate in scale and formally concentrated, the work locates portraiture at the intersection of appropriation, painting, and institutional history.
The Geert De Kegel Collection, Zele, Belgium.
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| Weight | 2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm |
