OFF-WHITE rend hommage à Marcel Duchamp avec un nouvel hoodie

Virgil Abloh rend hommage à l’artiste français emblématique Marcel Duchamp dans un nouveau hoodie.

La pièce fait allusion à l’une des premières œuvres de Duchamp, Fontaine, qui était un urinoir en porcelaine doté d’une inscription pseudonyme de « R. Mutt« . À l’époque, un objet quotidien n’était pas considéré comme une forme d’art, et lorsque Duchamp a voulu exposer la pièce à l’exposition Society of Independent Artists, l’oeuvre Fontaine avait été rejetée. Quelques décennies plus tard, Duchamp est réapparu dans une foule d’artistes qui ont défini l’avant-garde. Aujourd’hui, Marcel fait parti du même groupe que Pablo Picasso et Henri Matisse. Fontaine célèbre son 100e anniversaire cette année.

Le capuche de Virgil Abloh possède un « R. Mutt 1917« , le même insigne que sur la sculpture. À l’arrière de la capuche, une explication est inscrite avec les mots «Off-White ™ c / o R.MUTT». Ce nouveau hoodie a été dévoilé sur la page Instagram d’OFF-WHITE que vous pouvez voir ci-dessous.

Off-White™ c/o R.MUTT ~ A hundred years ago today, Marcel Duchamp, a French artist domiciled in New York, paid the entry fee for an exhibition organised by the Society of Independent Artists. Duchamp’s contribution to the show, titled Fountain, was a porcelain urinal he had purchased on April 2, 1917 and signed with the pseudonym R Mutt. When the show opened on April 10, 1917, Duchamp found his entry hidden away by scandalised organisers. Afterwards, the piece was lost, probably chucked out with the garbage. Although he protested the treatment meted out to his art, the episode was soon forgotten and he faded into relative obscurity. Four decades later, Duchamp’s concerns found echoes among a new generation of artists looking to break away from dominant conventions. John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, among others, drew on his example in their own work, and by the time of his death in 1968, he had become a celebrated name within a small community of avant-garde visual artists, musicians and film-makers. His reputation has continued to grow since then, and when the British Broadcasting Company asked 500 leading artists, critics and historians to rank the most influential works of modern art, Fountain placed first, ahead of seminal paintings by Picasso and Matisse like Guernica and The Red Studio. Modern art presents many obstacles to the lay public. A lot of it seems absurd, or lacking skill, or designed merely to shock. Duchamp’s Fountain was all of these. Understanding how it went from the garbage heap to the top of the art pile is a good way to comprehend debates surrounding contemporary art as a whole. ~ www.scroll.in

Une publication partagée par Off-White™ (@off____white) le 9 Avril 2017 à 12h24 PDT