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Fountain
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« A fixed idea measures the mobility of things »
When Marcel Duchamp exhibited his Fountain (the upside-down urinal)inNewYorkin1917, he signed it R.Mutt. "It's a work of art".
Echoing the French Surrealist movement, Duchamp's ready-mades promised, in New York and France, the death of painting.
One hundred years later, Nils Thornander mocks this manifesto with his Fountain. Like Galileo, who asserted And still it turns..., the artist replied to Duchamp, "Look! Your fountain has never flowed, while my painting flows through this funnel".
Nils Thornander actually filmed in real-time the few minutes the paint took to flow slowly out of its faucet.
