In 1917, Duchamp raised an ordinary object, a urinal, to the dignity of art by signing it and placing it upon a pedestal. Now, Ciprian Istrate throws one of his artworks to the swine.
Art does not “deteriorate” but transforms itself by absorbing the emotions, the perceptions, the thoughts of those who admire it, assume it, or aim to destroy it. Both beauty and equilibrium appear when the works of art are let go in their fluidness.
Duchamp submitted an ordinary object for an exhibition, offering it the value of a work of art. A work of art is given as food to a swine but, nevertheless, it continues to exist as art!
