Έκθεση/Exhibition: Reinventing
the Wheel: the Readymade Century
3 October
– 14 December 2013, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne
(© visual.artshub,
monash.edu
)
Arguably the most influential development in art of
the twentieth century, the use of the readymade was set in motion 100 years ago
with Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle
Wheel. Giving birth to
an entire artistic language, Duchamp’s conversion of an unadorned, everyday
object into a figure of high art completely inverted how people considered
artistic practice. Suddenly, art was capable of being everywhere and in
everything. It was a revolutionary moment in modern art, and the ripples from
this epochal shift still resonate today.[…] The exhibition presents works
by over 50 artists – from
Duchamp and Man Ray to Andy Warhol and Martin Creed, along with some of
Australia’s leading practitioners ….
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