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Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, organized by Tate Modern, London, will be bringing to Barcelona almost 300 works presenting the main themes explored by these artists during their Dadaist experience. The exhibition will present paintings, objects (among them Duchamp’s famous ready mades), photographs and films that reflect the universe shared by these three artists.

“Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art. Duchamp invented the concept of the ‘readymade’: presenting an everyday object as an artwork, Man Ray pioneered avant-garde photographic and film techniques and Picabia’s use of kitsch, popular or low-brow imagery in his paintings undermined artistic conventions.

Their shared outlook on life and art, with a taste for jokes, irony and the erotic, forged a friendship that provided support and inspiration. At the heart of the Dada movement and moving in the same artistic circles, they discussed ideas and collaborated, echoing and responding to each other’s works. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia explores their affinities and parallels, uncovering a shared approach to questioning the nature of art.”

(Taken from www.mnac.es and www.tate.org.uk)

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(1) Marcel Duchamp. Young Man and Girl in Spring, 1911. Collection The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008

(2) Francis Picabia. Daughter Born without Mother, 1916-17. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008

(3) Man Ray. Interior (Still Life and Room) 1918. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum © Man Ray Trust / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London