It concludes a transatlantic voyage that began, manifestly, over a year before, and to the fortieth jubilee of marcel broodthaerss death 19241976, at the museum of modern art, new york. Image in which a careful obliteration of mallarme s positional and typographic density is undertaken. Founded in 1989, october books provides a forum for critical engagement with crucial moments in the development of the historical and contemporary avantgardes. This exhibition reexamines some key moments in the exchange between art and poetry in the twentieth century until the end of the 1970s.
Books, paper, plaster, and plastic balls on wood base, without base. Wide white space gallery, antwerp, galerie michael werner, cologne. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Correspondances, the title of this show and the accompanying catalogue, refers to a series of pamphlets. He was a major french symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as cubism, futurism, dadaism, and surrealism. Marcel broodthaers was a belgian interdisciplinary artist who examined the conventions of art objects and the context in which they are shown. Abbildung consists of nine canvases that marcel broodthaers painted in 1973 to. The exhibition makes a poor case for its subject, but then its hard to. Building on the important role the journal played in introducing poststructural theory to the american art world, october offers a platform for the innovative work of scholars today.
Buchloh, rachel haidu, rosalind krauss, and trevor stark for a. The mallarmean poetic serves here as a thread for a history of modern art with its hold on language and its dissemination. Our work here at jacket2 will likely be delayed andor interrupted. A conversation on marcel broodthaers with dominique gonzalezfoerster and rodney graham. Broodthaers made his name as one of the most influential figures in 20th century art. Given the dated qualities that broodthaers usually adopts in his films, and given that he rejected the label experimental, the term avantgarde is appropriate. Poe, mallarme, dont il declare ne pas vouloir falsifier lheritage. My ogre book, shadow theater, midnight siglio press. Citation in the cinema of marcel broodthaers, borjavillel, marcel broodthaers, cinema. Brussels, belgium, 19241976 selected solo exhibitions 2018 marcel broodthaers, garage museum of contemporary art, moscow, russia broodthaerskabinet, s. Its intimate combination of free verse and unusual typographic layout anticipated the 20th century interest in.
I have been reading, in the typed minutes of the 1947 meetings of the belgian revolutionary surrealists, the ideological toing and froing between. Mechanical engraving and paint on twelve aluminum plates. Broodthaerss work stems from the partitionsmashing symbolism of both. The museum of modern arts retrospective of marcel broodthaers offers a template for how not to present conceptual art. Like many of you, we are adapting to increased safety measures around covid19 at the university of pennsylvania and other campuses. Kunstsammlung nordrheinwestfalen germany, this catalog and the corresponding. Broodthaers worked within a painting practice but was unhindered by nostalgia for his past, linked. Marcel broodthaers read the complete pdf press release. I would want that one did not read this note or that pass through, even one forgot it. This intimate and gorgeously produced book pairs belgian artistpoet marcel broodthaerss earliest collections of poetry my ogre book 1957 and midnight 1960both previously unpublished in englishwith an eightyimage projection work shadow theater 197374 made toward the.
As a major late 19th century reference, charles baudelaire seems to have more or less vanished from the imaginary museum of 20th century artists. Basically, he decided one day in 1964 to become an artist after years of writin. Marcel broodthaers major works at michael werner duration. Mallarme, baudelaire and magritte having an influence upon him, broodthaers relationship with them was one of active dialogue, in which he remade and extended their works, thereby bringing together themes from the 19th with the early and late. Marcel broodthaers my aim is to change the signs for the reading of a poemto show the extent to which the word is carried by the form. Main texts are printed smallpoint in black, red and pale green, with an.
Marcel broodthaers moules sauce blanche mussels with. On the occasion of marcel broodthaerss first retrospective in new york at the museum of modern art and forty years after his death in 1976, october presents a roundtable discussion on the belgian artists career and legacy. Dabord poete, le belge marcel broodthaers sest declare artiste a quarante. Exhibition october 5, 2016 january 9, 2017 sabatini. In retrospect, the career of marcel broodthaers 192476 seems an unlikely one. Although he is not generally widely known, he has had a profound influence on the generations of artists that have followed, and any museum committed to contemporary art crosses path with his legacy at some point. Exhibition curators christophe cherix and manuel borjavillel join benjamin h. A third and final presentation of marcel broodthaers. Poet, filmmaker, and artist marcel broodthaers used his practice to make incisive political statements and critique art institutions. Pdf towards a theoretical underpinning of the book arts. The piece included hundreds of readymade and fabricated objects, each labeled with the words this is not a work of art, a.