Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks ebonized wood backs

ebonized wood backs

Stamped ''EWA'' and "Made in'Vienna

was at some point cleaned/scraped down on the used side

is a slide opening

The drawing is in great shape

Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks ebonized wood backsAnother example of a thing made for one purpose, but which, recontextualized, feels quite like an artwork, this one feeling very Duchampian to me, including for his ongoing interest in thresholds and portals (doors, windows, peepholes, glass, etc..) I believe it was made as a salesman sample for sliding screens, here with three screens, each with handles for sliding them in one direction or the other. They can all be slid, one by one, to one side or