Picasso, enemy of Duchamp

There are two artists that may have influenced modernism and our perception of what art is more than any others: Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. They lived and worked in close proximity, yet seem to have moved in completely different worlds. When Duchamp died, Picasso is reputed to have made a laconic comment: “He was wrong.”

The exhibition Picasso/Duchamp, on view at the Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden) is based on the museum’s history and its fine collection of works by these two artists.

Duchamp eloquently expressed his ideas on the work of art as an unfinished piece with infinite possible interpretations. His creative works were, to a large extent, produced by others. Hence, Moderna Museet’s Duchamp collection, with the Large Glass as its centrepiece, is the result of Ulf Linde’s lifelong interest in Duchamp’s artistic practice. Moderna Museet also has a substantial collection of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by Picasso. A few interesting works have also been borrowed, in order to cover nearly seven decades of Picasso's oeuvre, focusing on "the master and his model".

Date: through March 3.
Location: Moderna Museet. Box 16382. SE-103 27 Stockholm. Sweden.
Opening hours: from Wednesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Tuesdays from 10am to 8pm.