The name of the work is:
Fountains for Pope Marcel Duchamp.
Painting from the series "conversations between works" where the artist responds to the original work with another work applying his plastic vision.
Marcel Duchamp is considered the most influential artist of the 20th century. He anticipated conceptual art, elevated the everyday object to the category of art and radically changed the idea of beauty. In reality, he was a hooligan, a punk who turned a joke into the dogma that the ragtag international artistic community follows today. Talent…? Preparation…? Tradition…? So that…? Duchamp sensed that painting was dead, rotting in museums/mausoleums, and discovered beauty in the circumstantial, the fleeting and the superficial (something that unfortunately is what he prioritizes these days). By painting mustaches on the Mona Lisa he discovered that perhaps he was improving on the original. By exhibiting a urinal in a museum he opened Pandora's box of catastrophes that today populate museums around the world, from cans of shit to the air of an artist.
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