As part of the first Russian Marcel Broodthaers solo exhibition, Garage is providing free guided tours for visitors with intellectual disabilities.
On the occasion of the Marcel Broodthaers exhibition, Garage inclusive department team have designed special didactic materials that will allow visitors to puzzle out Marcel Broodthaers mediums and genres.
Marcel Broodthaers questioned rigid and seemingly unshakeable conventions, such as artist’s signature, authorship, traditional exhibition formats, art movements and aesthetic mechanisms. Throughout his brief artistic career, he participated in over a hundred shows in Europe and the USA. Visitors to the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers. Poetry and images will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the artist’s paramount pieces, such as sections of the project Museum of Modern Art. Department of Eagles and his last installations with palm trees known as décors, as well as over eighty other works that will be on display at Garage.
Marcel Broodthaers was born in Brussels in 1924. At the age of forty he turned to visual arts and remained a practicing artist until his death in 1976. With over twenty years of journalism and poetry behind him, in art Broodthaers was looking for new, “transitional territories”: those between image and text, object and space, and the art itself and art institutions. Having gained much acclaim in art circles by 1968, Broodthaers appointed himself on the position of museum director, or, more precisely, director of Museum of Modern Art. Department of Eagles. The project was initiated with the aim to “verify” whether an imaginary museum can help to approach the very nature and mechanisms of real art institutions from a new perspective. Broodthaers resigned from this role in 1972—when his Museum of Modern Art received too much acclaim as an institution, which contradicted with the artist’s initial conception.
To prepare for a visit to the exhibition, Garage has created a social story reflecting the key issues regarding a visitor’s experience at the exhibition within a guided group.
Concluding the tour, the participants will be offered the opportunity to engage in a workshop.