| Wee exhibit, big scandal |
By Angela Bennie
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"First turn... a replica of Mercel Duchamp's original 'readymade' Bicycle Wheel."
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"Which is perhaps why Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the curator of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, has placed Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel right at the centre of her huge line-up of contemporary art in this year's Biennale program, to which she has attached the slogan "Revolution - Forms that Turn" as her overriding theme. 'A revolution is a turn and a return,' she says. ' It is also a sudden shift in perspective, a turning of perspectives, which is what Duchamp has done. So with this Biennale I am opening up the meaning of the word revolution.'"
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