PROJECT Q1 / FANTASTIC FORGERIES

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FANTASTIC FORGERIES /


MAN RAY - AU POIL - 1972


material/technique: hair, paper, stamp-pad ink, perspex, metal

type of object: ready-made

dimensions: 24,7 x 17,1 x 23 cm


A brush that you can use to aply gold on a object, which Man Ray placed between two plexiglass plates. Au poil is another word for ‘perfection’ in french. But ‘a poil’ also means ‘naked’ where ‘poil’ is a translation for ‘hair’. This improved ready-made was made in 1971. The artwork in Boijmans van Beuningen is one piece of fifty.


Man ray au poil.jpg