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The essential Duchamp

27 Apr – 11 Aug 2019

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Brian Fuata

Brian Fuata responding to Marcel Duchamp Bicycle wheel 1964

Brian Fuata works in performance through live and mediated forms. He employs various modes of presentation within the framework of structured-improvisation. In Brian’s works, the act of viewing is a reciprocating action between artist and audience and audience with each other.

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Victor Obsatz, 'Portrait no 29 (Double exposure: full face and profile)', 1953, gelatin silver print, 25.2 x 20.3 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Jacqueline, Paul and Peter Matisse in memory of their mother Alexina Duchamp, 13-1972-9(292). © Victor Obsatz. Courtesy Moeller Fine Art Ltd

Victor Obsatz
Portrait no 29 (Double exposure: full face and profile), 1953
© Victor Obsatz. Courtesy Moeller Fine Art Ltd

Photographers often used superimposed portraits to represent Duchamp’s multilayered artistic persona.

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Allison Gallagher

Allison Gallagher responding to Victor Obsatz Portrait no 29 (Double exposure: full face and profile) 1953

Allison Gallagher is a writer and artist whose poetry and essays have appeared in Overland, The Guardian, Southerly Journal and Potluck Magazine, among others. Their debut poetry book Parenthetical bodies was released by Subbed In.

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Marcel Duchamp, 'Bottlerack', 1961 (replica of 1914 original), galvanized iron, 49.8 x 41 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Jacqueline, Paul, and Peter Matisse in memory of their mother, Alexina Duchamp, 1998-4-23. © Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2019

Marcel Duchamp
Bottlerack, 1961 (replica of 1914 original)
© Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2019

'Bottlerack' was a circular stand with branches for putting wine bottles up to dry that Duchamp originally purchased in a Parisian department store.

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David Stavanger

David Stavanger responding to Marcel Duchamp Bottlerack 1961

David Stavanger is a poet, performer, cultural producer and lapsed psychologist. In 2013 he won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. In 2015 The special, his first full-length collection of poetry, was awarded the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. His prose-poem The electric journal was a 2016 Newcastle Poetry Prize finalist. These days he lives between the stage and the page.

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