Only for giants

From the realms of everyday life Marcel Duchamp took an urinal and managed, after some initial setbacks, to turn it into fine art. He titled the piece Fountain and signed is R. Mutt. The work is regarded by some as a major landmark in 20th century art. And so it goes....Art is what you can get away with.

Many people have reacted strongly to this piece and, yes some have of course pissed in it. The guys at the museum were naturally pissed off. For more info read: [link] Quite fun reading actually!

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I have a hate love relationship to Marcel Duchamp – maybe is whole oeuvre is just a big joke. Maybe should his work interpreted in terms of alchemy?

Anyway it is fun to piss in one of the fountainheads of modernism. So why not take the urinal back, out from the museum, but put in a new sensible context. And make into a big fertilizer: [link]

I thought of placing in a playground, but the authorities said the my "play pool" would be hard to keep clean, it does look like a urinal doesn't it? People would piss in, they said. And they had a point. But the farmer I talked didn't mind. If urine could be turned into money he was happy. Maybe that is just what alchemy is all about: Turning piss into gold! Or art?

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digital collage by edvard derkert 2010