To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. — Marcel Duchamp*
This weekend, join Helen Molesworth, Harry Dodge, Cauleen Smith, and Miranda July for a conversation on and reading from Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2021 facsimile of Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s 1959 monograph.
See link below for details.
HELEN MOLESWORTH, HARRY DODGE, and CAULEEN SMITH ON MARCEL DUCHAMP
WITH A READING BY MIRANDA JULY
Saturday, February 19, at 1 pm
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
901 East 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles
*Marcel Duchamp, “The Creative Act,” from spread from Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2021 facsimile of Marcel Duchamp (see image below), courtesy Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Marcel Duchamp, from top: 1959 deluxe edition, press copy, Galerie 1900-2000, artwork by Marcel Duchamp, © Association Marcel Duchamp/ProLitteris, Zurich, 2021; Duchamp signing the labels EAU & GAZ À TOUS LES ÉTAGES for the deluxe edition of Sur Marcel Duchamp at the Trianon Press offices, Paris, September 23, 1958, photograph by Richard Lusby, courtesy Marcel Duchamp Archives, Paris; spread from Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2021 facsimile of Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s 1959 monograph, artwork by Marcel Duchamp © Association Marcel Duchamp/ProLitteris, Zurich, 2021; cover from Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2021 facsimile of Marcel Duchamp, artwork by Marcel Duchamp © Association Marcel Duchamp/ProLitteris, Zurich, 2021; spread from Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2021 facsimile of Marcel Duchamp, artwork by Marcel Duchamp © Association Marcel Duchamp/ProLitteris, Zurich, 2021; window display designed by Duchamp to publicize Marcel Duchamp, L. Bamberger and Co., Market and Washington Streets, Newark, New Jersey, January 29, 1959–February 1, 1959, photograph by Handy-Boesser Photographers, Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives, Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers, series XII, subseries A, box 32, folder 3; Marcel Duchamp and Robert Lebel, stills from the 1967 film Grimace by Erró, © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich; supplement cover from Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2021 facsimile of Marcel Duchamp, artwork by Marcel Duchamp © Association Marcel Duchamp/ProLitteris, Zurich, 2021. All book images courtesy Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
