Monday, 29 January 2018

Vinegar(t) ( A bottle for M.B.)

Vin Aigre Château des Aigles

A bottle containing not a manuscript, but a print on vinyl of the review of the Marcel Broodthaers retrospective show at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York as published in the Financial Times on march 17th, 2016.

"To piss vinegar" is a popular expression aptly describing the tone this review was set in.
https://www.ft.com/content/c3e0f3e8-da1c-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818

Pisse-Vinaigre, Azijnpisser

I was very happy to be able to hand over a bottle to Broodthaers' widow Maria Gilissen years later, 
in 2024, and to learn that she "got" the joke and was happy with the gift.
"Chez le droguiste op den hoek"

© Eddy Gabriel
© Rocky Witzenstein

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