The name, The Broken Arm, is inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s work of readymade—“In advance of the broken arm.” Under the artist’s manipulation, an iron snow shovel goes beyond its own commonness and universality as an everyday object, so that the audiences are no longer bounded by its basic shape and function; art, thus, departs from the so-called “track”, participates in the society, and becomes one of its members, mingling with everyday, business, thoughts, and so on. This multi-functional commercial space that combines coffee, light and delicate meals, fashionable items, art related books, and stationaries, is located in the northern part of Le Marais, Paris.............

 

The Broken Arm店家名稱源自於杜尚的現成物作品「斷臂之前」《In advance of the broken arm/(from) Marcel Duchamp 1915》。因為藝術家的操作，一件鐵製雪鏟超乎了自身作為生活物件的俗常與普遍性，使得觀賞者不再受限於它的基本外型與功能，藝術自此脫離了所謂的「軌道」，加入社會成為其中的一份子，與日常、商業、思想等攪和在一起。這間結合咖啡、輕巧而精緻的便餐、時尚單品、藝術書籍、文具等等的複合式商業空間座落於巴黎瑪黑區北邊.............

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