BROODTHAERS/ EXHIBITION HISTORY 1964

In 1963, the writer Marcel Broodthaers decided to embark on a career in the visual arts. Yet he never severed his ties to poetry and language, whose systems of meaning make up an integral aspect of his work. Retaining a certain distance to the art world, he posed fundamental questions about art its mediums, its conceptions of what constitutes an artwork, its representation in museums. To this day, his oeuvre takes a critical stand on arts commercialization strategies. Exhibition-making itself was a key element of Broodth aerss artis...[Read more]