“Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles #2” (Paintings)

This work is articulated around the concept of the “eagle” developed by Marcel Broodthaers in his “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles”. In 1972, on the occasion of the exhibition “Section des Figures: Der Adler vom Oligozän bis heute” at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Broodthaers incorporated Gerhard Richter’s painting “Adler” (Eagle) as part of his museological dispositif. Inscribed within this genealogy, the present painting revisits the same iconographic motif forty years later, proposing a hypothetical—yet conceptually coherent—extension of that section.

From a formal perspective, the work establishes a direct dialogue with the photographic paintings Richter began in the 1960s, characterized by the projection of images onto the canvas followed by their veiling or partial erasure. This process destabilizes the legibility of the motif and renders its referents indeterminate, situating the image in a state of perceptual and semantic suspension.