Quirkiness in art isn’t always for quirkiness’s sake. Take for instance those produced in the early 20th century art movement Dadaism, best represented by Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain,” the upside-down porcelain urinal signed “R. Mutt: using wit, irony and iconoclasm, they were a snide commentary on the status quo, of what was considered acceptable, or desirable, in society.
It comes as no surprise, then, that “Fountain” is among the items being exhibited in “No Place Like Home,” an ongoing show at the Israel Museum that questions “the allocation of tasks between the sexes at home, identity, sexuality, family and how we build our cultural identity through the house,” as described by curator Adina Kamien-Kazhdan. The works, representing or resembling objects found in a typical household, are organized as though they were in one.
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“Domestic objects transformed by the artists in many ways are gathered in a quasi-house, a strange sort of house within the Israel Museum,” Kamien-Kazhdan said.
The artworks in the exhibit — 120 in all — also include ones by Mona Hatoum, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and Japanese feminist Yayoi Kusama, whose ironing board pervaded by phallic figures is among those that are not easy to miss.
“No Place Like Home” will run until July 29.
Source: designfaves.com