To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Houris a work by Marcel Duchamp from 1918. Made on glass in the original, the work combines oil paint, silver leaf, lead wire and a convex magnifying lens, mounted between two panes of glass. The title, inscribed on a strip of metal, serves as an instruction: Duchamp invites the viewer to look through the lens for almost an hour, an act that produces a hallucinatory visual effect: the image appears distorted, inverted, shrunken.
This creation is a reflection on optics, on perception and on looking as an active, physical act: it is not simply a matter of seeing, but of taking part in the work through a unique and prolonged visual experience.
Unique quality material
Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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