Marcel Broodthaers uses repetitive objects in his work. I have some work in the exhibition TIDE. an exhibition my fellow students invited me to be part of the work curated by Esme Bamber and Nicola Arnold. But they have indirectly shown me a potential way to take my screen printing series self-titled ‘Wake Up’.
The way they have curated it has made it more interesting in the sense that is a repetitive message being portrayed over and over again. I believe this is something I can work on. It defiantly reflects the ideas that I want to portray and I like that this has been portrayed through the work without my contribution or comments on curation or how id like my art work.
Marcel Broodthaers does this in many of his works. I believe this alone, the repetitive nature of work, is political. Just the very fact that it repeats itself over and over again. much like my prints, every egg is different, every print is different. The egg is a recurring motif.
Yes of a greater stance Broodthaers has in a way he has ‘defaced’ his counties flag by sticking egg shells over the top of it. The eggs divided between the colors of his flag, the three types of people in his society (?) Upper Class, Middle Class, Working Class. all stepping on ‘egg shells’ (?). or it may just be the fact that this work is ascetically pleasing, one egg would not be as effective than a larger amount.
Defiantly something to consider?
