In a career of just twelve years, the Belgian Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924 – Cologne, 1976) produced more ideas than most artists do in an entire lifetime. After devoting himself to poetry for twenty years, he abandoned it in 1964 to enter into a pact with a universe of very different values, namely the visual arts. Traversing media freely – from installation and sculpture to artist’s books, prints, film and inscriptions on aluminium panels – Broodthaers embodied the “post-media artist” for whom any form could be used in the service of an idea. The conceptions that drove his work included institutional critique (of which he was a pioneer), the debunking of art and visual puzzles. Edited by the artist’s daughter Marie-Puck Broodthaers, the book includes a vast selection of previously unpublished photographs, two important art-critical studies, a complete exhibition chronology and a select bibliography. With its 350 colour photographs, this is the most important and authoritative monograph ever published on Marcel Broodthaers.
Prefazione di Maria Gilissen-Broodthaers
La conquista dello spazio di Wilfried Dickhoff
«Io dico… Io tautologizzo. Io conservo. Io sociologizzo. Io manifesto…» di Bernard Marcadé
Fotografie e film prima del 1963
Moules, OEufs, Frites, Pots, Charbon [Cozze, Uova, Patate fritte, Pentole, Carbone]
Cronologia e piano del Museo d’Arte Moderna, Dipartimento delle Aquile
Moules, OEufs, Frites, Pots, Charbon, Perroquet [Cozze, Uova, Patate fritte, Pentole, Carbone, Pappagallo]
L’Angélus de Daumier
Décor
Biografia di Michael Compton
Mostre personali e collettive
Bibliografia
Film, proiezioni di diapositive e edizioni
Collezioni, crediti fotografici e ringraziamenti