Book Description
Marcel Duchamp had made the museum fit into a bag. What about now? How would it be if we build the museum on a part of the human body, an arm, for instance? The answer would be: The works of avant-garde artists who have made a mark on art and history of art like Giotto, Bruegel, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Dürer, El Greco, Caravaggio, Goya, Turner, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Braque, Malevich, Kandinsky and Duchamp will be brought together as a part of a body (body art). We witness that a visual object, an art work, has been transformed into a human subject. And thus, this person, as both a work of art and a museum with a walking, sleeping, living brain, keeps his museum open to viewers except for sleeping hours without considering about sanctions as status, selective board or capital. It should be emphasized that the art critic in this project (2008-2009) focuses on the subject by acting with a curator’s conscience and by using all the opportunities of art. The work has to be unique and never intended before, not only in Turkey but also in the whole world in order to achieve its naturalness and originality. We activated this “Arm Museum” by setting off from this point of view and by dealing with the avant-garde artists, we chose works or a detail of a work of art highlighting the pioneering visual characteristics of these artists. First of all this museum is dynamic in every aspect. It serves everyone who is interested in the museum for twenty four hours and does only its work without discriminating citizen from villager, intellectual from ignorant, national from international, foreign language speaker from non-speaker.
