Duchamp’s Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin
Kendell Geers
BOOK PRESENTATION
30.1.2026
Book presentation Duchamp's Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin by Kendell Geers
Eva Brioschi in conversation with the author
At 7 PM
Duchamp’s Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin
Kendell Geers
BOOK PRESENTATION
30.1.2026
Book presentation Duchamp's Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin by Kendell Geers
Eva Brioschi in conversation with the author
At 7 PM
The Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation is pleased to host the artist Kendell Geers on Friday, January 30, 2026.
Geers will present the results of his extensive and in-depth research, which led him to the publication of Duchamp's Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin (2024), published by Mercatorfonds.
In this book, he challenges the conventional definition of Marcel Duchamp as a radical iconoclast, highlighting the influences of classical masters such as Leonardo, Poussin, Dürer and Ingres on the artist’s production after his time in Munich in 1912.
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The conversation will be held in English.
Free entry and free guided tour of the current exhibitions with curator Eva Brioschi at 6 PM.
Kendell Geers is a pivotal figure in contemporary art, globally renowned for a practice that confronts identity, resistance, and the enduring legacies of history. Rooted in early political activism, his work asserts art as an ethical and transformative force that actively intervenes in social and historical realities.
Working within a post-Duchampian lineage, Geers conceives art as a field of relations rather than objects, integrating making, writing, and curating into a unified practice. His exhibitions function as Gesamtkunstwerk with immersive propositions in which artworks, texts, and space operate as a single work.
Through this expanded approach, Geers advances a holistic vision of art in which aesthetics, politics, spirituality and knowledge are inseparable, positioning art as a living process that reshapes perception and consciousness.
Oculist Witness (2024)
Duchamp’s Endgame: da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin is a passionate tale about the fundamental mysteries of Marcel Duchamp.
For the first time since the Summer of 1912, Geers opens our eyes to exactly what Duchamp was doing in Munich and why he stopped painting in 1919. The mystery has been hidden in plain sight for over a century because every work of art he made holds the key to understanding another work of art.
The book can be purchased online through the publisher’s website or directly from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation.