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January 01 2016

The Moment of Marcel Broodthaers? A Conversation

Manuel Borja-Villel,

Manuel Borja-Villel

MANUEL BORJA-VILLEL has been director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid since 2008. Before that he was director of Barcelona's MACBA and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. In 1997, he curated the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers Cinéma.

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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

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Christophe Cherix,

Christophe Cherix

CHRISTOPHE CHERIX is the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. His publications include the catalogues accompanying the exhibitions Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 (with Klaus Biesenbach, 2015) and In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976 (2009), and also the catalogues raisonnés of prints by Henri Michaux (with Rainer Michael Mason) and Robert Morris.

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Rachel Haidu,

Rachel Haidu

RACHEL HAIDU is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964–1976 (MIT, 2010) and numerous essays on artists such as Chantal Akerman, James Coleman, Sharon Hayes, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer, and Gerhard Richter.

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Rosalind Krauss,

Rosalind Krauss

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Trevor Stark

Trevor Stark

TREVOR STARK is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department at Harvard University. He is currently finishing his dissertation, entitled “Total Expansion of the Letter: Cubism, Dada, Mallarmé,” which is a genealogy of language and autonomy in avant-garde art rooted in the poetics of Mallarmé. He is a 2014–16 predoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Lauder Research Center for Modern Art.

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Manuel Borja-Villel

MANUEL BORJA-VILLEL has been director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid since 2008. Before that he was director of Barcelona's MACBA and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. In 1997, he curated the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers Cinéma.

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Christophe Cherix

CHRISTOPHE CHERIX is the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. His publications include the catalogues accompanying the exhibitions Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 (with Klaus Biesenbach, 2015) and In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976 (2009), and also the catalogues raisonnés of prints by Henri Michaux (with Rainer Michael Mason) and Robert Morris.

Rachel Haidu

RACHEL HAIDU is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964–1976 (MIT, 2010) and numerous essays on artists such as Chantal Akerman, James Coleman, Sharon Hayes, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer, and Gerhard Richter.

Rosalind Krauss

Trevor Stark

TREVOR STARK is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department at Harvard University. He is currently finishing his dissertation, entitled “Total Expansion of the Letter: Cubism, Dada, Mallarmé,” which is a genealogy of language and autonomy in avant-garde art rooted in the poetics of Mallarmé. He is a 2014–16 predoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Lauder Research Center for Modern Art.

Online ISSN: 1536-013X

Print ISSN: 0162-2870

© 2016 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2016

October (2016) (155): 111–150.

https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00245

Abstract

On the occasion of Marcel Broodthaers's first retrospective in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and forty years after his death in 1976, October presents a roundtable discussion on the Belgian artist's career and legacy. Exhibition curators Christophe Cherix and Manuel Borja-Villel join Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Rachel Haidu, Rosalind Krauss, and Trevor Stark for a conversation on Broodthaers's work, his artistic development, and his reception. Topics include the indeterminacy between language and visuality; the status of film in his work; his meditations on the commodity, the art market, and the historical role of cultural institutions; his ambivalent relationship with Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art; and national identity and decolonization.

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© 2016 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2016

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