Anamorphosis of Nude Descending a Staircase, CELESTE!

In 1912 Marcel Duchamp exhibited Nude Descending a Staircase at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. The clearest key to understanding this work was provided by Arturo Schwarz, Italian art historian, poet, consultant and curator of major Dada and Surrealist exhibitions, author of The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp.

Cartone for the fresco Anamorphosis of Nude Descending a Staircase, Celeste
150 × 220 cm, painted on the circular staircase wall in Ravenna, 1989–1994.

Schwarz stated that in Nude Descending a Staircase the construction of the unit of the Primordial Being — the immortal Hermetic Androgyne — is represented...

On the curved wall of a circular staircase in a villa in Ravenna, Fabrizio Ruggiero constructed “Nude Descending a Staircase” in its own true colour: CELESTE.

Nude Descending a Staircase, CELESTE!

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