Sherrie Levine (*1947)

As a protagonist of ‘Appropriation Art’, Sherry Levine engages with the pioneers of classical modern art, questioning the significance of copy and original, uniqueness and similarity. The glass forms, arranged in elegant cherry-wood glass cabinets, refer to Marcel Duchamp’s magical major work ‘The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even’ (The Large Glass), 1917-1923. The sand-blasted glass objects are the three-dimensional transposition, announced by Duchamp, of the ‘malic moulds’ that appear as a group of nine in the Large Glass. With the abstract panel paintings on the walls, Levine quotes the first monochrome paintings in the history of art, Alexander Rodtchenko’s triptych ‘Red, Blue, Yellow’ from 1921. ___