Marcel Duchamp and Early Modernism on View at the Moderna Museet in Malmo

MALMO.- Today, Marcel Duchamp is regarded as one of the most prominent and innovative artists of the 20th century, and his famous work Fountain was selected as the most influential work of the 1900s. Through September 11, 14 of his works, including The Large Glass, are being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö. Another exhibition opened simultaneously, featuring works from the Moderna Museet collection by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Sigrid Hjertén. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) emphasised the importance of the concept in a work of art. He was one of the first proponents of open art, where the interpretation of the viewer or posterity contributes to the creative act and thus to the meaning of the work. Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of Marcel Duchamp’s art, and fourteen of these works are now being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö. Marcel Duchamp painted his last

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