Slopfest #3 · 1929 · Vienna
Ceci N'est Pas une Slop
A painting of a pipe is not a pipe. A festival about slop is, unfortunately, slop.
Museum status: Pending acquisition by a museum of modern art. Pending since the day it was made.
- Venue
- Secession, beneath the golden cabbage
- Attendance
- 23
- Guest of honour
- René Magritte (attended, while politely insisting that he had not)
- Fun fact
- 41 labels, 0 accurate
What happened
Every exhibit came with a label denying it was what it looked like. A plate of Würstel was captioned 'This is not dinner', which the hungry took personally. René Magritte attended, while politely insisting he had not. Hermine Pospischil, taking the minutes, wrote 'These are not minutes' at the top, and they have been legally unusable ever since.
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Elsewhere in 1929
René Magritte paints The Treachery of Images: a pipe above the words 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'.
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