４億円の価値を持ち、金で同じものを作ったよりも高価な陶製便器が、パリ・ポンピドゥー・センターで展示されていた際に、一老人によって壊されるという被害に遭ったそうです。
「fountain」(「泉」と訳されていますが、篠原資明氏によると「噴水」が正しいとのこと)と題されたこの便器は、マルセル・デュシャンのレディ・メイド作品の中でも最も有名でセンセーショナルなものですが、もとはといえば、ただの小便器にサインをしただけです。
デュシャンはどうやら女性器を小便器に見立て、セックスを用を足す行為になぞらえていた節があり、もしそうなら、この独身主義者は所謂「女性の敵」だったのかもしれません。その女性蔑視的シンボルを破壊した喜寿の老人は「女性の味方」かというと、どうやらそうではないようです。彼は12年前に、この便器に用を足すというパフォーマンスを行い逮捕されているようで、今回の破壊も(大ガラスが割れたことをむしろ喜んだ)デュシャンなら理解してくれるだろうと漏らしているあたり、どちらかというと「女性の敵」のようです。
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Famous urinal artwork damaged by man with a hammer
PARIS (AFP) - "Fountain", a famous artwork consisting of a ceramic urinal made by French-US artist Marcel Duchamp, has been damaged while on display in Paris's Pompidou Centre by an elderly vandal armed with a hammer, the museum and police said.
The sculpture was slightly chipped and fractured in the attack Wednesday by the 77-year-old man, who was taken into custody and presented to a judge Thursday.
The Pompidou Centre said it had been forced to withdraw the work from view to repair the damage.
The urinal, considered a seminal piece to come from the early 19th-century Dada movement, is valued at some three million euros (3.5 million dollars).
It was made in 1917 by Duchamp and was on display as part of a wider Dada exhibition set to close at the end of this week after drawing in 350,000 visitors.
Police said it was the second time the old man had brutalized "Fountain". In 1993, he attacked it while it was part of an exhibition in Nimes, southern France.
Fri Jan 6, 9:44 AM ET
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Man Attacks Urinal Sculpture With Hammer
United Press International
A 77-year-old hammer-wielding Frenchman attacked artist Marcel Duchamp's 1919 urinal sculpture at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
The Fountain -- worth an estimated $3.6 million -- was slightly chipped in the attack Wednesday and the man was arrested, the BBC reported Friday.
Police said the suspect, who was jailed for a night, had urinated on the same sculpture at another exhibit in 1993.
The unidentified vandal told police his hammer attack was performance art, which Duchamp would have appreciated.
「fountain」(「泉」と訳されていますが、篠原資明氏によると「噴水」が正しいとのこと)と題されたこの便器は、マルセル・デュシャンのレディ・メイド作品の中でも最も有名でセンセーショナルなものですが、もとはといえば、ただの小便器にサインをしただけです。
デュシャンはどうやら女性器を小便器に見立て、セックスを用を足す行為になぞらえていた節があり、もしそうなら、この独身主義者は所謂「女性の敵」だったのかもしれません。その女性蔑視的シンボルを破壊した喜寿の老人は「女性の味方」かというと、どうやらそうではないようです。彼は12年前に、この便器に用を足すというパフォーマンスを行い逮捕されているようで、今回の破壊も(大ガラスが割れたことをむしろ喜んだ)デュシャンなら理解してくれるだろうと漏らしているあたり、どちらかというと「女性の敵」のようです。
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Famous urinal artwork damaged by man with a hammer
PARIS (AFP) - "Fountain", a famous artwork consisting of a ceramic urinal made by French-US artist Marcel Duchamp, has been damaged while on display in Paris's Pompidou Centre by an elderly vandal armed with a hammer, the museum and police said.
The sculpture was slightly chipped and fractured in the attack Wednesday by the 77-year-old man, who was taken into custody and presented to a judge Thursday.
The Pompidou Centre said it had been forced to withdraw the work from view to repair the damage.
The urinal, considered a seminal piece to come from the early 19th-century Dada movement, is valued at some three million euros (3.5 million dollars).
It was made in 1917 by Duchamp and was on display as part of a wider Dada exhibition set to close at the end of this week after drawing in 350,000 visitors.
Police said it was the second time the old man had brutalized "Fountain". In 1993, he attacked it while it was part of an exhibition in Nimes, southern France.
Fri Jan 6, 9:44 AM ET
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Man Attacks Urinal Sculpture With Hammer
United Press International
A 77-year-old hammer-wielding Frenchman attacked artist Marcel Duchamp's 1919 urinal sculpture at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
The Fountain -- worth an estimated $3.6 million -- was slightly chipped in the attack Wednesday and the man was arrested, the BBC reported Friday.
Police said the suspect, who was jailed for a night, had urinated on the same sculpture at another exhibit in 1993.
The unidentified vandal told police his hammer attack was performance art, which Duchamp would have appreciated.
