A look at the picture is a glance of freedom,
that beckons us.
It says: "Come on!"
(Günter Wohlfart)
illegal Comrade Marcel Duchamp was known as a work, or that secretly install an architect for twenty years, and only saw the light in my father died.
He left, in addition to paintings, even the building materials: an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, wood, leather stretched on a frame of metal, twigs, aluminum, iron, vetroplexigas, linoleum, cotton, electric lights, gas lamp, motor etc. ...
's work was installed and then exposed, and is still "visible" (perhaps) to the public at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
The full title reads:
Etant donnés: 1) the chute d'eau 2) the gaz d'éclairage,
or
Since data: 1) the cascade-closed water 2) the illuminating gas
A masterpiece of engineering, a device for peep pictures.
An old solid wood door is an entrance to a room, which in turn is an appendix to another room with a kind of window.
Beyond the opening of the wall, lying on a pile of twigs, you can see a woman naked, holding his arm with a small gas lamp lit, while in the background lit by a dim light, sets out a vision and accurate a real beautiful natural landscape.
a good flash animation of how the gaze is Ambaradan here
Nell ' Etant donnés what is the most prominent figure of the vulva lying down, the vacuum orifice opened. For the rest, you see a hill wooded, a body of 'water, a waterfall and animated by shimmering waves seething foam, and under a blue sky dotted with a few clouds, shining in the sunlight its silver highlights.
Designed by Duchamp to be exhibited after his death, 's Etant donnés lives after the death of the author-
unmarried beyond the 'Forge of Vulcan' and time of the gaze.Franco Speroni (Spioni?)Masterpiece in the masterpiece, the installation instructions that he left to posterity, a kind of business before you left no-go. We need to Jean Francois Lyotard credited with rebuilding the proscenium of the work. One of these days the shelves and I've put them here.
For now these few lines will suffice:
Thou savings be
witness ancient and recent
carefully read the instructions.
Not a wiring connection.
For the record, however, seems more Miss Being immortal that lata in data ... daughters do not have the date. "Manco dead?"
missing young lady, missing.
For its part, Seraphic for an answer and that the days of widening its grip involuntary decades, Duchamp kept repeating:
"On the other hand are always others to die,"
laid by non-Gallizio ---
without a shot being fired, and no date
