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Marcel Broodthaers — PLAN VERT. La porte est ouverte (GREEN PLAN. The Door is Open) (V. 36)
Marcel Broodthaers

PLAN VERT. La porte est ouverte (GREEN PLAN. The Door is Open) (V. 36)

Marcel Broodthaers's "PLAN VERT. La porte est ouverte" exemplifies the Belgian artist's conceptual practice of combining language, image, and institutional critique through printed matter. This work, numbered as part of a limited edition of fifty, demonstrates Broodthaers's engagement with the materiality of the book and exhibition as artistic mediums, themes he explored throughout his career in response to modernism and the museum's role in art discourse. The bilingual title and modest presentation reflect his interest in how meaning is constructed through text and context rather than through traditional visual representation.

Medium
Signed with initials, titled and numbered 9/50 in black ink on the back cover, published by Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne.

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January 23, 2025

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Marcel Broodthaers, PLAN VERT. La porte est ouverte (GREEN PLAN. The Door is Open) (V. 36)

Marcel Broodthaers's "PLAN VERT. La porte est ouverte" exemplifies the Belgian artist's conceptual practice of combining language, image, and institutional critique through printed matter. This work, numbered as part of a limited edition of fifty, demonstrates Broodthaers's engagement with the materiality of the book and exhibition as artistic mediums, themes he explored throughout his career in response to modernism and the museum's role in art discourse. The bilingual title and modest presentation reflect his interest in how meaning is constructed through text and context rather than through traditional visual representation.

Medium
Signed with initials, titled and numbered 9/50 in black ink on the back cover, published by Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Philosophical Inquiry, Neo-Avant-Garde, Belgian Artist, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Text-based artwork, Language And Semiotics, Installation Art, Poetic Abstraction

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