Sturtevant: 'Duchamp Bicycle Wheel' (1969-1973)
26 Sep 2012 – 13 Jan 2013
Exhibition in Gallery 4
This focused exhibition features a single work by Sturtevant made between 1969 and 1973: Duchamp Bicycle Wheel.
Sturtevant, 'Duchamp Bicycle Wheel' (1969-1973, bicycle wheel on wooden stool) © Sturtevant. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones Sturtevant, 'Duchamp Bicycle Wheel' (1969-1973, bicycle wheel on wooden stool) © Sturtevant. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones Sturtevant, 'Duchamp Bicycle Wheel' (1969-1973, bicycle wheel on wooden stool) © Sturtevant. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones
Since 1964 American-born, Paris-based artist Sturtevant (b.1930) has repeated works by her contemporaries, from Andy Warhol to Claes Oldenburg and Joseph Beuys. Made from memory and with the same methods as the original, Sturtevant's repetitions are eerily similar, if not almost identical. Through this subversive approach, Sturtevant divorces an artwork from its visual image to investigate its conceptual meaning and value.
At the heart of her work is the question: to ask: what makes a particular artwork from the past relevant in the present? Sturtevant herself succinctly described in a lecture titled 'Shifting Mental Structures' delivered at Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst in 2004: "The brutal truth of the work is that it is not copy. The push and shove of the work is the leap from image to concept. The dynamics of the work is that it throws out representation. It is this leap that severs a work from its original time and place of making."
Venue details
Venue address
Henry Moore Institute
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AH
United Kingdom
T: 0113 246 7467
Opening times
Galleries: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm
Research Library: Monday to Friday, 10am - 5pm
Archive of Sculptors' Papers: Tuesday to Friday, by prior appointment
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