DUCHAMP Ready Made - Art From The Future
from the Tate Modern:
Oh hello, cross-holes. Fancy seeing you here.
SF-MOMA’s edition has the triangle holes, but it also has a line of holes at the top that are completely different from either other version.
Here’s one from Moderna Museet. Line and a circular set of holes!
Duchamp definitely intentionally made these different on purpose. It’s a “readymade” but it’s not, really, each of these is a specific custom creation.
It’s not even clear if he made it! He wrote a letter to his sister claiming that a female friend sent it to him, and he just enrolled it in the art exhibit under his own name. There’s also a possibility that that female friend was himself, since he later had a female pseudonym of Rrose Sélav.This whole piece of art is a fractal troll, and it’s a beautiful one.
The only possible correction I can make is Duchamp’s alter ego’s name was Rrose Sélavy. C'est la vie. Anglicé, “That’s life.”
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