Surpris par la nuit
The drawings “Surprised by the Night” were produced while listening to a France-Culture transmission about Marcel Duchamp’s permanence in Buenos Aires in 1918 and 1919, when the French artist had decided to stop painting and started mainly to play chess.
He was so beautiful, he had such a crazy charm!
Beside some tango – there is nothing. I play chess, alone at the moment
A possibility to get out of myself, to get freed from my habits, to go to the moon
He is nothing anymore and people just imagines everything
He went to Buenos Aires in order to stop painting
Attempt to put aside the Ego
A film without an end
We got along well – we collaborated above all playing chess
I will concentrate on him and on his relationships with the objects and the chess
Avoid to get recruited by the war!
An art work has to be watched in order to exist. The spectator is as important as the artist
Marcel Duchamp is always looking for provocation
He didn’t like to talk about painting. He always came back to chess
He seemed to be very hearty and peasant. He was very beautiful, too
All movement has to die
He took many notes
The cadrage is a Ready-Made
The unhappy Ready-Made
The hazard, very well, but not the improvisation
We are all children of Marcel Duchamp