Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers, Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, 1968-69

Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) was a Belgian writer, critic, artist and filmmaker. After studying chemistry and years of financial struggle working as a poet and journalist, in 1964 he decided to become an artist and invested fifty unsold copies of one of his poetry books, Pense-Bête, in plaster to create his first sculpture. That same year, the statement he wrote for his exhibition at Galerie Saint-Laurent is Brussels reveals to his wryly detached position that will be symptomatic his entire career:

Works

Lettre Ouverte
Das Recht
a) A Voyage on the North Sea b) Un Voyage en Mer du Nord c) Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
Atomium (Detail)
Sylvie, Tochter des Künstlers
G. Mathieu
Untitled (camel with palm tree and pyramid)

Marcel Broodthaers

a) A Voyage on the North Sea b) Un Voyage en Mer du Nord c) Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
a) A Voyage on the North Sea b) Un Voyage en Mer du Nord c) Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
a) A Voyage on the North Sea b) Un Voyage en Mer du Nord c) Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
a) A Voyage on the North Sea b) Un Voyage en Mer du Nord c) Eine Reise auf der Nordsee
a) A Voyage on the North Sea b) Un Voyage en Mer du Nord c) Eine Reise auf der Nordsee, 1973
Offset, 38 uncut pages, 100 copies of this edition are numbered in Roman and Arabic numerals and signed M.B., with those goes a silent 16 mixed media film lasting 4.15 min, entitled „Un voyage en mer du nord“
15 x 17.5 cm
Ed. 36/100, Auflage: 1.100 bzw. 1000/