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PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION
FRED
FOREST RETROSPECTIVE
SLOUGHT
FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIE
FEBRUARY 2007
In
the context of his retrospective at the Slought Foundation,
Fred
Forest conducted a performance and devised an installation.
He
brought an authentic Marcel Duchamp to the supermarket, pushing
it
about in a shopping trolley while browsing the aisles. The
work
(preparatory sketch for "The bride stripped bare by her
bachelors")
was then deadlocked in a safe and seals applied on its doors
to ensure
the work inside remained sacrosant and pure. A certificate
was then
drawn up attesting to the presence of the Duchamp in the safe;
it was
notorized by a Justice of the Peace and then displayed on
the safe's
door. In other words, the artist exhibits and reveals a safe
containing a Marcel Duchamp, a work, as a result, that the
public is
unable to see! This situation-comedy parodies the way in which
works
of art go from being valued for pleasure to being valued for
money,
thus illustrating a fundamentally abhorrent and alienating
feature of
today's society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_aesthetics
http://www.slought.org/content/11348/
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