Sturtevant Duchamp Fountains at Ropac

a tiny, imperfectly formed urinal shaped like duchamp's fountain but modeled out of plasticine and painted an old chalky white against a stark white ground, a work by sturtevant at thaddeus ropac milano
Sturtevant, Fountain, no date, painted plasticine, 7 x 5 x 4 cm, at Thaddeus Ropac Milan

Sturtevant was using the work of Marcel Duchamp from almost the beginning of her public career in the 1960s, so this kawaii, undated, Bôite-en-Valise-size [but Stieglitz photo-shaped] plasticine Fountain could have been from anytime, really. Or anytime before 1997, when it appears in a collage of Stieglitz-style photos and distorted photocopies.

twelve identical black and white passport-size photos in a four-row grid, all depicting a plasticine model of duchamp's fountain, a white porcelain urinal laid on its back, with several of the urinals in the photos collaged over with identically sized photocopies of the urinal, at various degrees of repetition or degradation, a 1997 work by sturtevant at thaddeus ropac milano
Sturtevant, Duchamp Untitled, 1997, photo and lasercopy collage on paper, 33.5 x 29 cm, via Thaddeus Ropac Milan

Both these works, a 1969 drawing of Fountain by Sturtevant similar a 1964 Duchamp etching, and many more works by both artists are in a show at Thaddeus Ropac Milan, Marcel Duchamp & Sturtevant: Dialogues are mostly fried snowballs, until 23 July 2026. [ropac.net]