László Lakner: Fragment Marcel Duchamp
Vintage Galéria•Sep 30, 2025 — Nov 14, 2025
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László Lakner’s oeuvre is saturated with literary and art-historical references. Quotation in his work functions as a unique form of identification: series of major importance in his career are populated by the works, motifs, and texts of artists such as Rembrandt, Leonardo, Kurt Schwitters, Vladimir Tatlin, Paul Celan, and Walt Whitman, alongside the manuscripts, sentences, and volumes of philosophers including Arthur Schopenhauer and György Lukács.
Marcel Duchamp holds a distinguished place among the artists mentioned. Already in his early work Polytechnical Instructional Cupboard (1962–64), one finds references to the capillary tubes of Duchamp’s Large Glass (1915–23). A few years later, he paid homage to Duchamp’s Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (1921) with a conceptual sugar cube object (Hommage à Marcel Duchamp [To Rose Sélavy], 1969), then in the 1970s, he monumentalized Duchamp’s Comb in a...More
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László Lakner: Fragment Marcel Duchamp
Vintage Galéria•Sep 30, 2025 — Nov 14, 2025
Press Release
László Lakner’s oeuvre is saturated with literary and art-historical references. Quotation in his work functions as a unique form of identification: series of major importance in his career are populated by the works, motifs, and texts of artists such as Rembrandt, Leonardo, Kurt Schwitters, Vladimir Tatlin, Paul Celan, and Walt Whitman, alongside the manuscripts, sentences, and volumes of philosophers including Arthur Schopenhauer and György Lukács.
Marcel Duchamp holds a distinguished place among the artists mentioned. Already in his early work Polytechnical Instructional Cupboard (1962–64), one finds references to the capillary tubes of Duchamp’s Large Glass (1915–23). A few years later, he paid homage to Duchamp’s Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (1921) with a conceptual sugar cube object (Hommage à Marcel Duchamp [To Rose Sélavy], 1969), then in the 1970s, he monumentalized Duchamp’s Comb in a...More
