Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Recreating Marcel Duchamp's Intricate Final Work, Using Only The Instruction Manual

For years, artist Serkan Özkaya has been fascinated by Duchamp's Etant données, the darkened room you view through peepholes in the closed door. He wanted to know exactly how it works, but the curators at the its home, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, aren't allowed to go in and inspect its mechanisms themselves, let alone allowing a stranger access. So Özkaya did it Ikea-style.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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