Study visit to Duchamp at the Barbican

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OCA tutors Linda Khatir and Michele Whiting will be taking students on a journey into the world of Marcel Duchamp and other major art historical figures influenced by his ‘conceptual’ approach.  The exhibition ‘dancing around duchamp‘ will be of interest to BA and MA students across a range of disciplines including Fine Art, Creative Arts, Photography, Music, and Art History.  The visit is planned for Thursday 30 May starting at 1.30pm.
Around ninety seminal works will be encountered across the space of the Barbican – including Duchamp’s the bride and the batchelors, nude descending a staircase, the fountain, and the bicycle wheel alongside works by Robert Rauschenberg, Jaspar Johns, Merce Cunningham and John Cage; all highly respected in their fields and all influenced by Duchamp.
Contemporary artist and film maker Philippe Parreno (maker of the highly acclaimed film Zidane with Douglas Gordon) has taken an innovative approach to the space, his mise en scène incorporating installation, performance, image, sound and movement to enable the viewer to become immersed in an almost theatrical space that involves more than just viewing.  Stimulating all the senses, dancing around Duchamp offers a rich array of painting, sculpture, stage sets and musical notations, giving us a rare opportunity to experience how Duchamp’s ‘conceptual’ approach influenced generations of artists, and continues to do so today.
‘This clever, thoughtful, elegant show amounts itself to a kind of dance performance across continents and generations…shaping the unboundly anarchic arena of art today’ The Sunday Telegraph
‘It was at least partly through the conduit of these four men, each hugely influential in his own art form ..  … that Duchamp came to “drastically alter the art of the 20th century. He is the father of conceptual art and possibly the entirety of contemporary art, as well as pop art and postmodernism” The Guardian
To book a place on this richly varied visit please email enquiries@oca-uk.com to secure a free place.