INV. No 3715
Duchamp e “La guerra”
1998
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE:
Duchamp and “The War”
MATERIALS: Bicycle saddle, iron cable, iron plate
DIMENSIONS: 197 × 70 × 25 cm
Frame: 100 × 70 × 3.3 cm
Monocycle: 121 × 74 × 15 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and titled on the verso, lower left: ‘1998 / ‘Duchamp e la guerra’’ (right-to-left script)
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1998_3715
MATERIALS: Bicycle saddle, iron cable, iron plate
DIMENSIONS: 197 × 70 × 25 cm
Frame: 100 × 70 × 3.3 cm
Monocycle: 121 × 74 × 15 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and titled on the verso, lower left: ‘1998 / ‘Duchamp e la guerra’’ (right-to-left script)
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1998_3715
NOTE:
A saddle from a unicycle whose wheel is composed of an iron cable coiled to form a circle, on an iron rod protruding about twelve centimetres, hangs from a sheet of black iron of the same dimensions and characteristics as the other works presented at the ‘Picnic o il buon soldato’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3204). The work title cites French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), evoking his famous 1913 readymade, Bicycle Wheel.
