2009
Caroline Bachmann/Stefan Banz
What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall
Caroline Bachmann/Stefan Banz
What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, 2009
DVD, 100 images, variable size,
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, gift Caroline Bachmann/Stefan Banz
2009-041-001
© Copyright erhalten
What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, 2009
DVD, 100 images, variable size,
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, gift Caroline Bachmann/Stefan Banz
2009-041-001
© Copyright erhalten
Caroline Bachman, b. 1963 (Lausanne, CH), Stefan Banz, b. 1961 (Menzau, CH); live and work in Cully, CH and Berlin, DE
In 1946 Duchamp spent a few days with his lover on Lake Geneva and photographed the little waterfall Le Forestay. These photographs form the background of his mysterious image Étant donnés, as Stefan Banz learned almostby chance. In What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz show themajestic views of Lake Geneva that he ignored in favor of the nondescript waterfall. They capture a lake that “wears a new dress every hour” (Duchamp), photographed in the light of different times of day and night.