Elena Filipovic

Elena Filipovic is director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel. She is editor of The Artist as Curator: An Anthology (Mousse/König, 2017) as well as author of David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (Afterall, 2017) and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2016).
Even if these myriad “Duchamps” already indicated a great flexibility regarding the concept of art and artist, it was Etant donnés, I thought, that didn’t fit.
Marcel Duchamp, Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage . . . (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas . . . ), 1946-1966. Mixed media assemblage. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the Cassandra Foundation, 1969, 1969-41-1 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Association Marcel Duchamp.

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