Of the modern masters, the most contemporary (or rather, the least modern) is Marcel Duchamp. One of his most important creations is the readymade, an extreme consequence of collage. If collage signifies the incorporation of a fragment of reality into the artwork, the readymade signifies the incorporation of an entire object into a space intended for the artwork.
This essay explores this problem and its consequences in the realm of "anything goes" in contemporary art. Within it, works expand and reinvent themselves, crowding and mingling in a whirlpool that transforms our perception. And in this whirlpool float the irreducible remnants of the ready-made: a mental construct that has continued to challenge us since 1913 with different nuances, time and again.

Horacio Zabala, artist and architect (University of Buenos Aires). He lived in Europe between 1976 and 1998, the year he returned to Buenos Aires. His artistic production is based on minimal visual languages ​​and heterogeneous media. With these, he questions, subverts, and relates contemporary information and fictions to the image, the word, the sign, and the object. In 1967, he held his first solo exhibition, and in 1972, he published his first theoretical text. To date, he has had 40 solo exhibitions in the Americas and Europe. The most recent are: Reiterations , at Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York (2012), and Other Cartographies , at Galería 11x7, Buenos Aires (2011).

Author
Horacio Zabala

Technical specifications
Edited by: Infinity
Year: 2012
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 21 x 13 cm
Weight: 115 gr
Spanish
Pages: 88
ISBN: 978-987-9393-72-7