Fountain

The year 2017 marks hundred years of one of the most famous artworks of all time, i.e. Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. This object, classified as readymade, was an urinal placed on a footstall. Signed “R. Mutt” it was submitted for the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists held at The Grand Central Palace in New York. Fountain was rejected by the members of the exhibition committee who did not recognize it as art and did not agree to exhibit the object. The original produced in 1917 was lost and in 1964 Duchamp authorised 17 replicas. Leszek Lewandowski decided to execute the artist’s will expressed in the title of the work and, specially for the Art in Art exhibition, designed a fountain which is exhibited outdoor during summer months.