2.10.2011

Object du jour: Frank Gaard's Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Snowshovel (1969)


In an email, Minneapolis-based artist Frank Gaard explains this seasonally appropriate readymade from 1969:
I got the snowshovel when I first moved here from California in 1969. It was standard issue for renters in Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts buildings.

I thought it was pretty ironic. The fellow in the photo broke his arm that following summer; the title of the Duchamp readymade was In Advance of A Broken Arm. It seemed as if the readymades could be anywhere, made from anything. It was a skill-less art, no craft, just slight knowledge of contemporary art.

1 comment:

Frankygaard said...

http://frankgaard.org

further the shovel Daleth in Hebrew is the door, what is beyond the door? The future which for me is spent. Wasted on Marcel Duchamp and Kabbalah and paintings that scare horses.