Rudolf Herz
Marcel Duchamp. La Patte
A photograph of Marcel Duchamp, taken in Munich in 1912, serves more than a hundred years later as the starting point for seventeen drawings. Commissioned by the conceptual artist Rudolf Herz, Parisian street painters appropriated Duchamp’s radically expressionless photographic portrait, each adding their own unique artistic signature. Duchamp’s time in Munich in particular led to his decision to free himself from any form of artistic signature, the “patte” or “paw.” Herz’s thesis: Duchamp’s photograph anticipates the development revealed through his revolutionary idea of readymades.
Marcel Duchamp: La Patte is an ironic response to Duchamp’s decision and reflects in a playful and associative way the fundamental turning point in his work. Texts by Antje von Graevenitz and others outline the art-historical context.
May 2024
ISBN 978-3-7356-0982-3
17 × 24 cm
80 pages
26 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Languages: German, English
Editor
Philipp Norman John, museum Fluxus+, Potsdam / Marie-José Sondeijker, West Den Haag, Den Haag
Text by
Antje von Graevenitz, Rudolf Herz, Philipp Norman John, Marie-José Sondeijker
Design by
Horst Moser, independent medien-design, München
Events
Ausstellung "Rudolf Herz: Marcel Duchamp. La Patte" museum Fluxus+, Potsdam 26. April 2024 - 23. Juni 2024 / West Den Haag, Den Haag 7. September - 10. November
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