The Unskilled Migrant
Marcel Duchamp’s last painting, Tu m’, features a hand painted by a commercial sign painter named ‘A. Klang,’ whom Duchamp had hired to execute the illusionistic detail. By paying another painter to paint a hand whose forefinger points at the vanishing point of a canvas--upon which the shadows of earlier readymades are cast, Tu m’ summons together a gamut of artistic skills, labour, and materials, and recirculates them within a painted history of Duchamp’s own oeuvre.
in Third Text Asia, 4, 2010
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