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Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers (1924 - 1976) was active/lived in Belgium.  Marcel Broodthaers is known for Installations, conceptual art, mixed-media sculpture, poetry, caligraphy.

The following exhibition review is from The New York Times, Art and Design section, October 11, 2016.

‘Marcel Broodthaers,’ a Knot of Riddles in a MoMA Retrospective
By Holland Cotter

An untitled artwork by the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers combines eggshells with the colors of the Belgian flag at a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

“I’m no good at anything. I am 40 years old.” So wrote the Belgian poet Marcel Broodthaers, who up until 1964, had been supporting himself, barely, as a bookseller and photojournalist (lots of pictures of the Brussels World’s Fair), while making short, strange films and publishing avant-garde poetry.

One thing he didn’t lack was ambition, which led him to wonder whether he couldn’t, after all, finally “sell something and succeed in life.” Sell what? It was around then that “the idea of inventing something insincere crossed my mind.” The insincere something was art, and he jumped on it.

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