The works on view exploit commodities of varying origin, texture, scale, and color—including chocolate, comic and coloring books, shopping bags, sweaters, and wallpaper. Nearly a hundred years after Marcel Duchamp constructed the first readymade, the exhibition enables us to reconsider old notions of materiality and to reassess the now-ubiquitous use of non-traditional materials in art.
After the Readymade coincides with, and serves as a primary source for, the University of Chicago graduate course Materialities of Modern Art. Students from this class will produce the individual object labels over the course of their study.