Musée des Aigles Modernes 8
A compact painting that reconfigures key elements from Marcel Broodthaers’s Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles through a language of visual displacement. The image—drawn from a dissected eagle and the typographic punctuation of Cinéma Modèle—is rendered unstable, oscillating between appearance and dissolution.
Engaging the perceptual ambiguity of Gerhard Richter’s photo-paintings, the work shifts emphasis from representation to the conditions of seeing. Positioned within a lineage that includes Marcel Duchamp and Robert Filliou, it forms part of the broader conceptual framework of Davis Museum Barcelona, where painting operates as both image and institutional proposition.
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Davis Lisboa, Musée des Aigles Modernes 8, 2018. Oil on linen, 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm (15.7 × 15.7 × 1.38 in)
This work is built from a precise field of references linked to the legacy of Marcel Broodthaers and his Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles. The composition brings together two visual fragments: the image of a dissected eagle and a sequence of commas drawn from Cinéma Modèle, a thermoformed plastic work in which punctuation, repeated and isolated, takes on a material and typographic presence of its own. Both elements are reconfigured through a process of displacement that dissolves their immediate legibility.
The pictorial language operates in close proximity to the logic of Gerhard Richter’s photo-paintings, where projection and blur function simultaneously as structure and image. The painted surface sustains a condition of instability: the visible comes into focus only to dissolve again, shifting the work away from fixed representation and toward a more perceptual mode of reading.
Within this framework, the painting situates itself within a genealogy of artists who redefined institutional form through artistic practice, including Marcel Duchamp with Boîte-en-valise and Robert Filliou with Galerie légitime. These positions do not function as citations, but as structural conditions that inform the internal logic of the work.
Extending this trajectory, Davis Museum Barcelona operates simultaneously as institution and artwork: an active system in which archive, exhibition, and fiction converge. Within The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona, this painting forms part of an ongoing investigation into the museum as both image and object, holding in tension the intertwined conditions of authorship, display, and symbolic construction.
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| Weight | 2.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm |
