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Release: September 30, 2010
STEFAN BANZ (ED.) – MARCEL DUCHAMP AND THE FORESTAY WATERFALL
With texts and essays by Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Étienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael Lüthy, Bernard Marcadé, Adeena Mey, Herbert Molderings, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Michael R. Taylor, Philip Ursprung, and Hans Maria de Wolf.
Special artistic contributions by Mélanie Althaus, Ecke Bonk, Andreas Glauser, Peter Roesch, Roman Signer, Tadanori Yokoo, and many others.
Les Édition KMD / JRP|Ringier, Zurich: English, 408 pages, 480 images and illustrations in black and white, and color, 24.5 x 17.5 cm, €32.00, ISBN 978-3-03764-156-9.
In Summer 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, including five days at the hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on lake Geneva. There he discovered the waterfall Le Forestay. No research was ever done as to why the artist chose this waterfall and not another to become the starting point for and ultimately the landscape of his famous final masterpiece, Étant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage… a multidisciplinary event in Cully, on lake Geneva, near the waterfall Le Forestay, attempted to provide answers to this and many other questions about Duchamp’s work.
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