Marcel Duchamp. Curated by Susanne Pfeffer. MMK – Museum for Modern Kunst, Francoforte. 04.02.2022 – 10.03.2022

The exhibition Marcel Duchamp, curated by Susanne Pfeffer, presents works covering all phases of the artist’s production from 1902 to 1968.

The exhibition explores Duchamp’s activity by dividing his work into sections: Readymade, Early Works, Caricatures, Cubism, Rotoreliefs, Chess, Rrose Selavy, and the Large Glass.

The exhibition is also enriched by a selection of photographs and documents relating to Marcel Duchamp’s holidays in Italy in the 1960s.

Gianfranco Baruchello is present at the exhibition with a series of his own photographs, documenting the years-long friendship (1962-1968) between the Italian artist and Duchamp, and chronicling the pair’s travels to Bomarzo, Naples and Cadaques between 1963 and 1964. Among the documents in the exhibition, all now belonging to the Marcel Duchamp Fund kept at Fondazione Baruchello (correspondence, photographs, invitations, books, etc.), the selection includes an extract from the film Verifica incerta (Disperse Exclamatory Phase) (Baruchello, Grifi, 1964) “dedicated to Marcel Duchamp”, alongside a postcard sent by Alexina “Teeny” Duchamp, and the telegram announcing the artist’s death on 2 October 1968