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Special exhibition marking the occasion of Dada 100 Zurich:
Marcel Duchamp, The Unhappy Readymade 2016
Re-installation (replica) of Marcel Duchamp’s Ready-made malheureux, the instructions for which were cabled by the artist in Buenos Aires to his sister Suzanne Duchamp in Paris in 1919.
Directly behind the KMD, attached on the grid of the window of the immediately adjacent building at Place d’Armes 1, is a geometry textbook—Géometrie descriptive par Louis Kollros, professeur à L’école Politechnique Fédérale, published by Orell Füssli, Zurich 1918—which will remain exposed to the weather for the duration of the whole year.The wind will « go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages. » The sun and the rain will slowly decompose the knowledge contained in the book until it has ultimately returned to nature in its entirety.
The Unhappy Readymade will be on view the whole year through, every day, around the clock, and free of charge.
January 1 to December 31, 2016
Note: On April 28, 2016, the book disappeared. It was cut from the grid and stolen. In other words, The Unhappy Readymade ended in fact unhappily!