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Duchamp '1200 Coal Bags', 1973/1992



Duchamps 'Portable Museum 1941.

Marcel Duchamp

Well know for his use of the 'readymade' I must a least be aware of how he addressed the use of the found object. I have also been intresed in reading about a surrealist exhibition he was involved in often cited as 'Duchamp's coal sacks'[Image shown not of same show.] However Duchamp's was only one of the contibuters, others include Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Georges Hugnet and Benjamin Peret under the direction of Duchamp. Thses exhibitions are sometimes known as 'ideological hang's'
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"For the early twentieth-centry avant-garde, the exhibition hand was perceived as a way in which to supplement the radical polemics of their artistic practice and to announce their distance from current aesthetic conventions."
Bishop Claire. ‘Introduction: Installation art and experience.’ In Bishop, Claire. Installation art. A critical History. London: Tate Publishing. 2005.
This move from traditional modes of display is something I am intresed in looking at on a domestic level and I find it intresting to see how the surrealist group created unknown atmosphere's for the viewing of art.I am very intrested in his notion of a personal museum for the owner to curate at will, this is an early example of artist using curatorial techinques.


Goshka Macuga, 'Cave', 1999

Goshka Macuga

Working primarily with themes surrounding the construction of the gallery and how artwork or musum objects are presented, it follows that Macuga is someone I am intrested in. I have been researching her for both my dissertation and my practical work as she is often described in term of artist/curator. She deals with creating different ways of viewing art but constructing new spaces whether like her early work, Cave [1999] or newer works where she constructs freestanding modes of display.

Geroge Brecht

These cases have an aesthetic valuse which intrests me hugely as I begin my work with Storage unit. The aspects of collection and display are highly important to me as I begin to design my own storage units.


Herbert Distel's ' Museum of Drawers' 1970 -77

Herbert Distel

"Distel invited artists to contribute a miniature work of art to the museum he was both creating and curating. This was housed in a former cotton-reel cabinet with a total of 500 compartments in twenty drawers set on a base made by Ed Kienholz." Quote taken from Putnam, Jame. 'Art and Artifact, The Museum as Medium.' Thames and Hudson. London. 2001


Charles and Ray Eames side unit.

Charles and Ray Eames

There are a number of reasons why I find these designs so interesting. Not only were the units efficient and visually pleasing but they were also created specifically for the customer, each was created individually out of a kit of standard parts.
"The idea of creating something individual out of a kit of standard parts was central to the Eames’s approach to architecture. One of their most admired buildings is their own house and studio in California, USA, which is based on similar principles to the storage unit: it has a steel frame with colourful wall panels of different materials and finishes."

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