Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise featured in Ludwig Museum Budapest exhibition
The Ludwig Museum in Budapest presented the exhibition "Slow Life: Radical Practices of the Everyday" from April 9 to August 23, 2020. This show included Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise, a portable collection created between 1935 and 1941. Duchamp produced twenty miniature galleries containing sixty-nine of his pre-1935 works, all fitting into a suitcase. The artist's arrangement allowed the pieces to stand up like displays used by traveling salesmen. His work anticipated his 1942 escape from occupied France to New York. The exhibition was reviewed by Tyrus Miller for ARTMargins Online in July 2020. Duchamp spent six years developing this portable collection during the late 1930s. The exhibition's Hungarian title was "Lassú Élet: Radikális Hétköznapok."
Key facts
- Marcel Duchamp created Boîte-en-valise between 1935 and 1941
- The work contains sixty-nine miniaturized versions of his pre-1935 pieces
- Duchamp made twenty slightly varying versions of the portable galleries
- The exhibition ran from April 9 to August 23, 2020
- The show was held at Ludwig Museum in Budapest
- Duchamp fled occupied France for New York in 1942
- Tyrus Miller reviewed the exhibition for ARTMargins Online in July 2020
- The exhibition's Hungarian title was "Lassú Élet: Radikális Hétköznapok"
Entities
Artists
- Marcel Duchamp
- Tyrus Miller
Institutions
- Ludwig Museum
- ARTMargins Online
Locations
- Budapest
- Hungary
- France
- New York