“An artist expresses himself with his heart, so it is with your heart that you must take in their works. That’s the only thing that matters.”
Marcel Duchamp
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Saturday, 9 January 2010
11 Rue Larrey.
If you were to go back many years ago, back to 1927, back to Paris and wonder through the streets, eventually you would come across 11 Rue Larrey. It was in this building that Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp, was playing with a string of words - “A door must be either open or closed.” To most this was a French Proverb, but to Duchamp it was a challenge… or a joke – either way it had impact. It had meaning. And it could not be ignored.
It was then that he created, one of his more complex ready mades. His idea was to make a door that perfectly fitted two doorways. It connected the apartment entrance to his bathroom. When the door closed one room, it left the other open, thus bringing two contradictions together in the same moment. He described this simple, yet brilliant idea, as the definative ‘reconciliation of opposites.’
Ultimately this piece is memorable because it is the perfect expression of one man’s sense of humour. It is not so much a testament to surrealism, but really one of whimsy.
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