Black lines radiating outward from the round form at the painting’s center resemble the spokes of a bicycle wheel, like the one also on view in this gallery that so fascinated the artist’s brother Marcel Duchamp. Circles—some hand-painted, others cut from printed silver paper—evoke a flickering motion. This work’s ambiguous title, which brings together the nouns “solitude” and “funnel,” suggests a mechanical counterpart to a psychological state.
Gallery label from 2019