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This oil painting on linen is inspired by a 1962 photograph in which Robert Filliou appears wearing his “Galerie légitime,” conceived as a folded paper hat, during an exhibition in London. The composition of commas derives from Marcel Broodthaers’s thermoformed plaque “Cinéma Modèle,” a work that interrogates the relationship between written language and industrial process. The painting forms part of “The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona,” the only section of the museum in which works are offered for sale. Davis Museum Barcelona thus inscribes itself within the genealogy of artists who have conceived the museum as a conceptual gesture, from Duchamp’s “Boîte-en-valise” to Filliou’s “Galerie légitime” and Broodthaers’s “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles.”
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This work draws on an iconic black-and-white photograph of the French artist associated with the Fluxus movement, Robert Filliou (1926–1987), taken during the exhibition “Defrosting the Frozen Exhibition” at the Festival of Misfits in London in 1962. In the image, Filliou wears his “Galerie légitime” (1962–1964) on his head, a mobile gallery conceived from a folded paper hat. This gesture, playful yet incisive, calls into question conventional notions of the museum, subverting hierarchies and conceiving art as an everyday, participatory act.
The composition also incorporates a motif of commas inspired by Marcel Broodthaers’s “Cinéma Modèle” (1970), a thermoformed plastic plaque from his “Poésie industrielle” series. Broodthaers applied punctuation marks to painted and stamped plastic surfaces using industrial thermoforming techniques that evoke waffle production. This ironic intervention foregrounds the intersection of visual language and commonplace materials.
The painting belongs to “The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona”, the only section of the museum in which the works are offered for sale. This project extends the genealogy of artists who created their own museums as radical conceptual gestures, situating itself within a tradition initiated by Marcel Duchamp’s “Boîte-en-valise” (1935–1941), continued by Filliou’s “Galerie légitime” and Broodthaers’s “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles” (1968–1972). Symbolically founded in a ballot box and disseminated primarily through social media, the Davis Museum Barcelona reimagines the museum as a work of art: a collection of small-format contemporary works and a digital archive, officially recognized as a non-profit initiative by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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| Weight | 5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3 × 80 × 80 cm |
