Opera incompleta (mancano le 8 lastre di plexiglass). Scatola contenente la base in legno e il libro d'artista di Cage e Sumsion. "Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel is one of John Cage’s earliest graphic works. Best known as a composer, Cage created the piece as a tribute to Marcel Duchamp, a pioneer of conceptual art who died in 1968. The title refers to a remark made by artist Jasper Johns at Duchamp’s death: ‘I don’t want to say anything about Marcel.’ The work consists of eight ‘Plexigrams’, each made of eight Plexiglas panels set into a wooden base. Cage produced the work by using his signature approach of ‘chance operations’, which was inspired by the I Ching, the Chinese ‘book of changes’. The artist made random selections of letters and numbers, silk-screening them along with images on the panels. When the panels are assembled together, they present a multilayered composition of fragments of texts and images without a fixed meaning." - M+

Sitography: FONDAZIONE BONOTTO, "Not wanting to say anything about Marcel", www.fondazionebonotto.org
www.fondazionebonotto.org/it/collection/fluxus/cagejohnmiltonjr/11/486.html
M+, "John Cage 約翰‧基治 Calvin J. Sumsion 卡爾文‧薩姆森 Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel. Plexigram I 不想談論任何有關馬塞爾的事──塑膠玻璃板印圖一1969", www.mplus.org.hk
www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/objects/not-wanting-to-say-anything-about-marcel-plexigram-i-2017276/
NORTON SIMON MUSEUM, "Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: An Artwork by John Cage", www.nortonsimon.org, 2010
www.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions/2010-2019/not-wanting-to-say-anything-about-marcel-an-artwork-by-john-cage/
WIKIART, "Not Wanting To Say Anything About Marcel, II", www.wikiart.org, 2013
www.wikiart.org/en/john-cage/not-wanting-to-say-anything-about-marcel-ii-1969