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“Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture” introduces a wide selection of approximately fifty works coming from prestigious international institutions that document the main themes of the artist’s poetics: the relationship between art and language, the status of the artwork, and criticism of the museum as device and idea. |
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“His original ideas on how the work of art is identified self-reflexively and on how the socio-economics of art governs creation and legitimization must be understood in relation to his twenty years of activity as a poet.”
Marcel Broodthaers, La Salle Blanche, 1975 – 2003, wood, photographs, bulb, painted inscriptions, rope, 390 x 336 x 658 cm. Exhibition copy from Estate Marcel Broodthaers stored at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
MAMbo (Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna) is delighted to present “Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture,” the first complete retrospective in Italy devoted to the Belgian artist, curated by Gloria Moure, on view from 26 January to 6 May, 2012.
In its complexity and scope, the exhibition with which the MAMbo renders homage to the genius of Marcel Broodthaers highlights an artistic path developed over the course of an extraordinary career that lasted just 12 years, from 1964 to 1976. “Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture” introduces a wide selection of approximately fifty works coming from prestigious international institutions that document the main themes of the artist’s poetics: the relationship between art and language, the status of the artwork, and criticism of the museum as device and idea.
The curatorial project of the exhibition is intended to verify how the relationship between image, object, and word constitutes the central and constant theme of Marcel Broodthaers’ research and has strongly conditioned his entire creative process. His original ideas on how the work of art is identified self-reflexively and on how the socio-economics of art governs creation and legitimization cannot be understood in all their depth if not in relation to his twenty years of activity as a poet and his subsequent decision to extend his literary vocation in undertaking a new course with a career as an artist in 1964.
