London / Paris / Salzburg + 2 other locations
This exhibition is the first to explore the centrality of the fetish in Marcel Duchamp's practice. Largely overlooked by scholars and curators, fetishism served as a potent guiding principle as the artist traced his singular path through twentieth-century art. Duchamp himself acknowledged that eroticism was 'visible or conspicuous, or, at any rate, underlying […] the basis of everything I was doing'.