Fundación Proa presents the International Colloquium Marcel Duchamp, coordinated by Paul Franklin, on November 20 and 21, 2008, in the auditorium of its new building.
The International Colloquium Marcel Duchamp “will not explore a specific line of thought, but rather will be a forum for the exchange of ideas so that we could benefit most fully from the expertise and scholarly interests of our panelists. To have our colloquium devoted to Duchamp in a city where he once lived, it is a rare and unique opportunity. While the theme is in the most general sense the life and work of Duchamp, our topics are wonderfully varied and well balanced”, explains Paul Franklin, coordinator of the event.
Paul Franklin (USA. - France)
He is an art and architecture historian of Columbia University, who went on to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard University. An investigator and critic, he is since 2001, editor in chief of the publication Etant donné Marcel Duchamp, of the Association pour l’etude de Marcel Duchamp. He has published various academic articles and organized numerous conferences on the life and work of Marcel Duchamp.
Program
Gonzalo Aguilar: Duchamp in Buenos Aires
Professor of the University of Buena Aires and investigator for the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet). He was a visiting professor at the university of São Paulo, in Brazil, and Stanford and Harvard, in the United States. Among other books, he has published La poesía concreta: las vanguardias en la encrucijada modernista(2003, translated to Portuguese) and Otros mundos (Ensayo sobre el nuevo cine argentino) (2006, translated to English). In 2005 he was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Elena Filipovic: Duchamp as curador
Write, art historian, and independent curator. Specializing in the life and work of Marcel Duchamp, she writes and gives conferences on the subject constantly. At the same time, she researches and contributes to contemporary art theory. She was co-curator of the 5th Biennale of Berlin (April 2008) and co-editor of the publication The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe (Roomade y MIT Press, 2005). Among her most outstanding recent curatorial work, are the Let Everything Be Temporary, or When is the Exhibition?, at the Apex Art gallery, in New York; and Anachronism, at the Argos Center for Art and Media, in Brussels. She is actually completing her doctoral degree in Art History at Princeton University, referred to the exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp. Additionally she teaches at the Program for Curatorial Studies at the contemporary art center De Appel, in Amsterdam.
Linda Henderson: The Duchampian concept of “space-time“
Professor and researcher at the University of Texas-Austin, United States. She is a specialist in European and American art of the 20th century, in the period between 1900-1930, as well as in the interdisciplinary study of Modernism. She has published numerous book, among which stand out Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works y The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art.
Currently, she is working on an exhibition at the Park Place Gallery at the Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Estados Unidos).
Jean-Jacques Lebel: An artist’s and eyewitness’s views on Duchamp
An artist – one of the first European artists to initiate the happening-, and also independent curator. His works have participated in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, and are part of the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Musee d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Galleria Nazionale d´arte Moderna in Rome, among others. He has curated numerous international collective and individual exhibitions, and his illustrated interviews were published in the publication Etant donné Marcel Duchamp, n.7, Beaux Arts Magazine and the Spanish newspaper El País. Both him and his father – Robert Lebel- were close friends of Marcel Duchamp, and of the Surrealist artists’ inner circle, for which they have collaborated in numerous projects and publications.
Bernard Marcadé: The concept of the readymade according to Duchamp and to his interpreters
He is a critic, curator, aesthetics and art history professor at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. He has organized numerous international exhibitions at institutions such as the Musée de Nantes, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the São Paulo Biennal, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Montevideo, among others. He is the author of the biography Marcel Duchamp, une vie a crédit, recently translated to Spanish by the Argentine editorial Libros del Zorzal.
Gloria Moure: (topic to be defined)
Ph.D in Art History, independent curator, and art critic. She directs the 20_21 collection that belongs to the Catalounian editorial Polígrafa, and is the author of diverse essays on contemporary artists. She organized the first retrospective on Marcel Duchamp in Spain in 1984 at the Fundación Caja de Pensiones. She also organizes contemporary art exhibition at various Spanish museums, and has worked at the Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, the Fundación Miró, the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, and the Fundación Tápies.
Francis Naumann: Duchamp and chess in Buenos Aires
He is an academic, independent curator, and art-dealer, specializing in the art of the Dada and Surrealist periods. He is the author of various articles and exhibition catalogues, including Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1999), and New York Dada: 1915-23 (1994). In 1996 he organized Making Mischief: Dada invades New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In 2003 he co-curated Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, United States. Among his future projects are conferences and a publication on certain aspects of Marcel Duchamp’s production.
Michael Taylor: Duchamp and Étant donnés
As of 2003, he is the Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among his most recent exhibition areThomas Chimes: Adventures in Pataphysics (2007); Salvador Dalí: The Centennial Retrospective (2005); and Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne (2002-2003). He graduated at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, writing his master’s thesis on Richard Hamilton and his doctoral dissertation on Marcel Duchamp’s readymades. He has published numerous articles on Duchamp, Dada, and Surrealism. His future projects include co-curating the American pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale and and exhibition focusing on Duchamp’s Étant donnés (2009), at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The The Colloquium is supported by:
Air France
Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires
Colloquium is of public character, free of charge, and with limited seating. A certificate of assistance will be given.
Contact: duchamp@proa.org