Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy

Until March 18, 2024, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Marcel Duchamp and the seduction of the copy, curated by Paul B. Franklin, an independent scholar living in Paris and one of the leading experts on Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Among the most influential and innovative artists of the twentieth century, historic friend and advisor to the American patron Peggy Guggenheim.

With one, the exhibition presents around sixty works created between 1911 and 1968 from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, such as Nude (sketch), Sad Young Man in a Train (1911) and Box in a Valise (1935-41), and from other prestigious Italian and US museum institutions, including the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

By reproducing works with different techniques, in different sizes and limited editions, Duchamp demonstrates that some duplicates and their originals offer comparable forms of aesthetic pleasure. It is in this way that he redefines what constitutes a work of art and, by extension, the identity of the artist. Examining the absolutely innovative and varied ways in which Duchamp cited himself throughout his long artistic career, the exhibition itinerary develops in several interrelated sections.

The exhibition is accompanied by a rich illustrated catalogue, published by Marsilio Arte, with an essay by the curator Paul B. Franklin.

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