The Frenchman told the world that art goes far beyond the surface and that not even an object necessarily had to be a work of art. More than an artistic object it opened the way for an artistic fact. Piero Manzoni argued that any rubbish can become art if the artist says so. Duchamp redefined what anything anyone could be a work of art. Piero Manzoni took this idea to unexpected consequences. Yet by challenging the cultural establishment he also irrevocably altered the structures of power and culture.
The museum itself its nature and purpose is a e-commerce photo editing matter of debate. The museum is no longer the once venerable certifying institution which ratified what is or is not art. The Homeland under Construction National Palace Gallery Mexico. The first notions of the museum refer to the great collections then to a desire to preserve historymemory in this sense it is easy for the museum to become a mausoleum. Approach to civil society where the state turns the museum into an extension of its system of political education indoctrination.
The participation of the communitycivil society has been passive but also marginalized in the face of the physical but above all conceptual construction of the museum. As María Ángeles Querol rightly points out …our Western society calmly waits for a City Council a Ministry or a Ministry to open a museum for it. Then they will go to visit it or not they will like it or not but in any case the blames and the criticisms fall on whoever opened it. Books Poster made for the Leningrad section of the Gosizdat State Literary Publishing House.
