Suzanne Duchamp
In the organizer's words:
The exhibition presents the multifaceted oeuvre of the artist, who contributed to the development of Dadaism in the 1910s and 1920s, spanning no less than 50 years.
Although Duchamp's works are represented in world-famous collections and she was well connected in art circles during her lifetime, her artistic significance long remained in the shadow of her brothers Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon as well as her husband Jean Crotti.
The retrospective shows around 70 works, some of which have been rediscovered through extensive research, including experimental collages, figurative representations, abstract paintings and historical photographs as well as important archive finds. Duchamp's artistic independence and freedom become visible in the overview. The exhibition focuses in particular on her innovative use of materials and media as well as her broad artistic spectrum, which often defies art-historical categories. Humor and enigma lend Duchamp's art its characteristic tone.
From the mid-1910s, she created a subtle visual language unique to Dadaism by combining aspects of the readymade, poetic inscriptions and geometric forms. In works such as "Zerbrochene und wiederhergestellte Multiplikation" (1918-19) and "Einsamkeitstrichter " (1921), she explored the boundaries and extensions of different media and created graphically memorable yet minimalist compositions with auspicious titles such as "Fabrik der Freude" (1920).
In addition to her Dada works, the exhibition highlights Duchamp's early cubist interiors and cityscapes, her late figurative paintings with often ironic undertones, the landscapes of the 1930s and 1940s and her almost abstract late work.
For the retrospective, the SCHIRN was able to bring together important loans from numerous international museums and public and private collections in Frankfurt, including the MoMA in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen and important private collections such as the Bluff Collection and the Francis M. Naumann and Marie T. Keller Collection. The retrospective was created in close collaboration with the Association Duchamp Villon Crotti.
An exhibition in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zürich.
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