“Moderna Museet has a historically significant relationship to the enigmatic Duchamp, who stands out today as one of the most influential artists of the previous century. This wonderful acquisition is crucial to anyone wishing to understand his oeuvre,” says Daniel Birnbaum, director of Moderna Museet.
 
Åke Bonnier, bishop of Skara bishopric in the Church of Sweden, comments on his support:
“The importance of Marcel Duchamp’s presence at Moderna Museet, to both Swedish and international art life, is beyond a doubt. I am happy to be able to support research into the intriguing dialogue that arose between Marcel Duchamp and Ulf Linde here in Stockholm.”
 
Moderna Museet has one of the world’s most valuable collections of works by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). In connection with the exhibition Rörelse i konsten (Movement in Art, 1961), Duchamp visited Stockholm and embarked on an intense collaboration with the art critic Ulf Linde (1929–2013), who created replicas of practically all the artist’s key works during a few years. Marcel Duchamp signed the replicas and regarded them as authentic versions. The impact of this collection on Duchamp’s international reputation after the war can hardly be exaggerated. The replicas have been exhibited reepeatedly at some of the world’s major museums of modern art. Moderna Museet has now created a special room for the permanent display of its entire collection of Duchamp’s works.
 
“In connection with the symposium Duchamp and Sweden, we will also show Duchamp’s notebooks and the letters he wrote to Linde. Being able to study this historic material is of great value to anyone who is interested in the development of modern art,” says Ann-Sofi Noring, co-director of Moderna Museet.
 
Duchamp and Sweden – On the Reception of Marcel Duchamp after World War II
Symposium 28–30 April. The speakers include:
Cécile Debray - curator, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Paul B. Franklin - freelance researcher and editor of Étant donné, Paris.
Dr. Gerhard Graulich - director of the Department of Painting, and associate director of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Marcel Duchamp Research Center Schwerin.
Adina Kamien-Kazhdan - David Rockefeller curator, Department of Modern Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Alexander Kauffman - PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Derek Pullen - director, SculpConsLtd, former head of sculpture conservation, Tate, London.
Dr. Kornelia Röder - curator of the Marcel Duchamp collection at the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Marcel Duchamp Research Center, Schwerin.
Michel R. Taylor - director at Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
 
The symposium is free of charge, but advance registration is required. Read more: Duchamp and Sweden
 
The Symposium is held in close collaboration with the Art History departments at Stockholm University and Södertörn University, and is supported by TERRA Foundation for American Art.

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