Looking for a Rembrandt

This work by Echaurren also reflects some Duchampian elements and echoes. The unrealized project depicts a bronze sculpture of a monkey holding an iron with its right hand: if the animal is adherent to all the artist's work declined to the universe of primitives (such as the last film Pablo di Neanderthal, released in 2022 and directed by Antonello Matarazzo), the iron recalls in a veiled way Marcel Duchamp's famous phrase "Using a Rembrandt as an ironing board". As with the other works donated to MoRE, this project has no specific commission. The reasons for its not being realized are logistical and appear as theoretical exercises on which the artist continues to question himself.
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