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Marcel Duchamp Art Exhibit, March 12-April 27
The exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: About the Large Glass and Related Works” will be held at The Turner at The Chico Museum, March 12 to April 27, 2008. Subtitled, “Questioning Art’s Production, Function, and Reception - Lessons from Marcel Duchamp,” this exhibition invites us to consider one of the two or three most important artists of the last century who continues to be an enigma - a ghost-like presence.
On March 12, Dr. Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of several books, including the definitive work on Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass, will be the guest speaker in the University Humanities Center (Trinity Hall 100) at 5:30 PM. The title of her talk is “Readymade Talk of What Goes on in the [Large] Glass”: Marcel Duchamp, Science/Technology, and Bergsonist Cubism.”
Professor Henderson, whose reputation is global, is acknowledged as one of the most important scholars working today exploring exchanges between the visual arts and science. In addition to being an internationally respected Duchamp scholar, she is the foremost authority on the Fourth Dimension and its relationship to artistic production in the twentieth-century. Her interests go beyond Duchamp to include Einstein. Recently she was a keynote speaker at the Einstein centennial in Berlin and a member of the roundtable, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, that was held last October at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
The centerpiece of this exhibition will be a replica of Duchamp’s major work The Large Glass, 1915-23 (the original is permanently installed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art) that was produced in 1990 by Chico students under the direction of Professor James McManus. Related works include reconstructions of Fountain, Three Standard Stoppages, and Bicycle. Joining these objects are important works by Marcel Duchamp, borrowed for this exhibition, including his Notes in a Green Box and A l’infinitif.
Prophetic in his 1972 statement, Roger Shattuck declared, “After Duchamp it was no longer possible to be an artist in the way that it was before .”
A reception for Professors Henderson and McManus will follow the lecture at the Chico Museum, 2nd and Salem Streets, Chico, CA. The public is invited to attend the lecture and reception at no charge.
This lecture is made possible by generous funding from the CSU, Chico Associated Students. Exhibition funding and support is from The Janet Turner Print Museum, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Turner Board of Directors and the Department of Art and Art History, all part of CSU, Chico.
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