The artwork, titled “Bicycle Wheel,” was created by Marcel Duchamp in 1913. This ready-made piece is part of the Dada and Kinetic Art movements and falls under the installation genre. The artwork is currently housed in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel.
“Bicycle Wheel” features an ordinary bicycle wheel mounted upside down on a wooden stool. The seemingly mundane objects are transformed through their combined association, a hallmark of Duchamp’s pioneering explorations into found art. The wheel, elevated and detached from its conventional use, stands as a stark symbol of movement within stillness, embodying the Dadaist challenge to traditional artistic values.
