Photographs taken outside after the exhibition at the Barbican Centre. No camera's inside..
The Bride and the Bachelors exhibition explores the artist Marcel Duchamp, and the way he influenced the artistic world.
Many young artists were inspired my Duchamp at the start of their careers, causing a direction of this type of art in the 50's and 60's.
The exhibition features over 90 pieces of work that tell the story of Duchamps relationships with the composer, John Cage, choreographer, Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
The exhibition starts with Duchamps most iconic pieces.
Scheduled dance performances reflect on Duchamp's inspiration.
Sketches drawn whilst in the exhibition.
One piece that I particularly liked were the Viels 1-4 by Rauschenberg.
I also like the work by Jasper Johns, which experimented with the form of numbers, for example, Figure 8.
Overall I found the exhibition interesting, but quite hard work. The pieces from all artists overlapped, and there was no real timeline to the way they were set out. This meant that you needed to connect the dots between pieces elsewhere in the exhibition in order to understand the relationship between them.
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