The last Duchamp Portrait by Patrick Ireland alias B. O'Doherty

Kurzbeschreibung

In 1966, Patrick Ireland (then Brian O'Doherty), asked his friend Marcel Duchamp if he could make his portrait. Duchamp agreed, and O'Doherty, an ex-doctor, recorded Duchamp's electrocardiogramm. He then designed an artwork which represented Duchamp's heart-tracing beating on indefinitely on an oscilloscope. While seen by some as a tribute, the Duchamp portrait contests some of Duchamp's primary ideas, and is in fact an anti-Duchamp gesture. This was one of several of what Ireland/O'Doherty called "Gestures" made in the following decade. these include an on-going photographic self-portrait (from 1969), "Wittgenstein 7H to 7B", and a compendium in a box, "Aspen 5+6" (1967), which has been called the first conceptual exhibition outside the gallery.

KünstlerInnen / AutorInnen

• Brian O'Doherty, Künstler, New York

Termin

• 12. Juli 2002

Veranstalter

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) und Graduiertenkolleg "Bild-Körper-Medium" an der staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG)

Veranstaltungsort

ZKM, Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Deutschland

Kommentar

Das Symposium "Bildersturm und Bilderflut" nimmt Themen der Ausstellung "iconoclash" auf, welche die Konflikte um Bilder sowohl in historischen Situationen wie auch in der zeitgenössischen Welt vorstellt.

Eingabe des Beitrags

, 04.11.2003

Kategorie

• Vortrag

Schlagworte

• Themen:
  • Konzeptuelle Arbeit

Ergänzungen zur Schlagwortliste

• Marcel Duchamp