Sturtevant: Duchamp Bicycle Wheel (1969–1973)

Through the subversive approach of repetition, Sturtevant (b. Lakewood 1930) divorces an artwork from its visual image to investigate its conceptual meaning and value to ask 'what makes this art work relevant today?' Duchamp made his 'Bicycle Wheel' in 1913; Sturtevant's re-assesses how we look at, remember and endow this first readymade with meaning. Examining understandings of aesthetics, challenging and redefining notions of authorship, the original and the copy, Sturtevant contests the mythologised aura of the original.

Elaine Sturtevant
Duchamp Bicycle Wheel (1969–1973)