Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp

Installation view, Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, Tang Teaching Museum, February, 2018

Millie Wilson, Lace Curtain Window, 1991, custom French window with vinyl panes, brass hardware, lace curtains, latex, 48 x 36 x 8 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Peter Norton, 2015.26.30

Installation view, Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, Tang Teaching Museum, February, 2018

David Hammons, The Holy Bible: Old Testament, 2002, artist’s book with slipcover, 13 x 10 ½ x 2 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Peter Norton, 2014.7.10

Installation view, Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, Tang Teaching Museum, February, 2018

Marcel Duchamp’s (1887–1968) ideas about what art can be and how art can function in the world make him arguably the most important voice in visual art of the last century. He revolutionized art and how we understand art, and continues to do so across multiple generations, for makers and thinkers alike. Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp revisits a 2003 Tang Museum exhibition also called Living with Duchamp, and will feature works by more than 30 contemporary artists whose conceptual and irreverent works engage with Duchamp’s oeuvre. The artists in the exhibition play with notions of construction and improvisation to question our making of the world through systems of language, knowledge, objects, and information. They engage with gender and alter egos, and tease out power relationships in art and art history.

In addition, Duchamp extended his provocations to exhibition making, by designing installations that countered the white walls and rectilinear spaces of modernist galleries. Rather than ensuring viewers an unimpeded interaction with the works on display, Duchamp obstructed sightlines and pathways within the exhibition space to complicate and highlight the act of viewing. In the Duchampian spirit, Rose Ocean will be designed in collaboration with students from Associate Professor Michael Oatman’s “Marcel Duchamp Seminar” in the School of Architecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp is curated by Dayton Director Ian Berry and is supported by Friends of the Tang.

In a grainy black and white photograph, a woman rests her head on a man’s chest as he wraps his arms around her and looks directly toward us.

Diane Arbus
Marcel Duchamp and his wife, Alexina Sattler, at home, N.Y.C. 1965, 1965 (printed later)
gelatin silver print on Agfa paper

Naomi Savage
Harley’s Halo, 1980
photo collage

Anya Kielar
The Geek #1, 2008
wood panel, paint, inkjet prints, fabric, glue

Kathy Grove
The Other Series: After Man Ray, 1992
gelatin silver print

Naomi Savage
Harley’s Halo I, 1980
photograph

Richard Pettibone
Two ties; Self-Portrait; Marcel Duchamp, “Fresh Widow,” 1920; Playboy Nude Blonde Dressing or Undressing, 1977
oil, screen print on four attached canvases

General Idea
Gesundheit (Why Not Sneeze Lucio Fontana?), 1991
2 found post cards, Kleenex-brand packaged tissue in plastic box

Vibeke Tandberg
Living Together #12, 1996
computer-manipulated chromogenic print

Man Ray
Portrait of Catherine Deneuve, 1968
gelatin silver print

Robert Gober
Untitled, 1992-1996
photolithograph on archival French Dur-O-Tone paper

An image of a red-haired person with animal-like ears and nose wearing a white suit in front of a blue plaid backdrop, beside a recreated image of a person wearing a backwards baseball cap with white floppy ears in front of a red plaid backdrop.

Matthew Barney
CREMASTER 4: The Loughton Candidate, 1994
color photograph on artist-made cast-plastic frame

Millie Wilson
Lace Curtain Window, 1991
custom French window with vinyl panes, brass hardware, lace curtains, latex paint

Andy Warhol
Ladies and Gentlemen (Broadway), 1974
Polacolor Type 108

Naomi Savage
Rue Even for Ruth , 1975
gum bichromate print, metal plate

Kathy Grove
The Other Series: After Kertész, 1989
gelatin silver print

A black leather-bound book with gilded page edges and "HOLY BIBLE" and "OLD TESTAMENT" gilded on its spine.

David Hammons
The Holy Bible: Old Testament, 2002
soft cover, leather-bound, gilt-edged, gold-tooled artist’s book with slipcover

Alan Belcher
Federal Express, 1990
wood, metal, photographs, staples

Julian Hoeber
Untitled (after Kertész B), 2014
gouache, graphite on paper

Exhibition Name

Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp

Exhibition Type

Group Exhibitions

Place

Malloy Wing

Dates

Feb 17, 2018 - May 20, 2018

Curators

Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp is curated by Dayton Director Ian Berry.

Artists

Matthew Antezzo, Diane Arbus, Robert Arneson, Matthew Barney, Alan Belcher, Zeke Berman, Mike Bidlo, Michael Brown, Carter, Andy Coolquitt, Stephen Dean, Marcel Duchamp, Louis Féron, Martha Friedman, Jan Galligan, , Robert Gober, Kathy Grove, David Hammons, Tim Hawkinson, Julian Hoeber, Ray Johnson, Matt Keegan, Martin Kersels, André Kertesz, Anya Kielar, Rachel Lachowicz, Marko Lehanka, Sophie Matisse, Allan McCollum, Sheila Metzner, Jonathan Monk, Yasumasa Morimura, John Newman, Michael Oatman, Zachary Pearson, Richard Pettibone, Francis Picabia, Amy Podmore, Man Ray, David Robbins, Naomi Savage, Jonathan Seliger, Jana Sterbak, Michael St. John, Vibeke Tandberg, Johannes VanDerBeek, Douglas Vogel, Andy Warhol, Julian Wasser, Ai Weiwei, Millie Wilson

Past Exhibitions 2018

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