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Gagosian inaugurates its new gallery at 980 Madison Avenue with a showcase of replicated \u201creadymades\u201d by pioneering French conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp
\nThe exhibition runs parallel to a historic Duchamp retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, the first of its kind in over 50 years<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Duchamp<\/a> spring in New York. The Museum of Modern Art\u00a0 (MoMA<\/a>) recently mounted the first U.S. retrospective<\/a> dedicated to the artist in half a century, and joining in on the momentum, Gagosian<\/a> is christening its new Upper East Side space with a trove of the conceptual French artist\u2019s most beloved readymades.<\/p>\n On from April 25 through June 27, the exhibition, in the spirit of \u201cBicycle Wheel,\u201d marks a full-circle moment for both the artworks. Through the years, many of Duchamp\u2019s original bunch of masterpieces had been lost or destroyed, so for the 50th anniversary of his first readymade, the artist and his dealer, Arturo Schwarz, created a set of 14 replicas, which made their American debut in 1965 at the shuttered Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, which was housed in the same Upper East Side building.\n<\/p>\n Included in the show are pieces like \u201cFountain\u201d (1964, after 1917 lost original), \u201cL.H.O.O.Q. (1964, after 1919 original), \u201cPorte-bouteilles (Bottle Dryer)\u201d (1964, after 1914 lost original) and \u201cBo\u00eete-en-valis\u201de (1935\u201349; contents 1935\u201341). Of the works, \u201cRoue de bicyclette (Bicycle Wheel)\u201d (1964, after 1913 lost original), is only surviving example that does not belong to a major international institution.\n<\/p>\n The new Gagosian space is just steps away from the gallery\u2019s former Upper East Side headquarters, which they vacated last year after it was bought out by Bloomberg Philanthropies. By securing just the ground-floor gallery, Gagosian was able to continuing its 35-year foothold on 980 Madison Avenue.\n<\/p>\n By retreating the artist\u2019s hand and embracing found objects, Duchamp challenged the notion of value and tilted art toward the conceptual, a shift that paved the way for movements like Dada, minimalism, pop and fluxus. \u201cIt all started with Duchamp, I couldn\u2019t imagine a better artist or a more critical body of work to be the first exhibited in our new gallery at 980 Madison, a building he showed in just over sixty years ago,\u201d Larry Gagosian said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n