{Marcel. The boy with the green box. The White Ravens 2018}

“Marcel. The boy with the green box” receives, in the autumn of 2018, a “premium label” assigned
by a group of experts from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek (the most important library in the
world in the children's/youth sector) for the prestigious catalog The White Ravens.

The jury:

“Author-illustrator Daniela Iride Murgia constructs a portrait of Marcel Duchamp’s (1887-1968) childhood with great compositional finesse. Duchamp spends his childhood in a house with a large garden, his attentive gaze examining everything that surrounds him. He possesses a great vivacity ofspirit and a constant urge to move. An idea leads him to wondrous inventions that stem from a montage of what he finds on the street. New, unusual life animates everyday objects, inspiring new perspectives. Then there is his passion for chocolate, and his fascination for the machine that produces the chewy, aromatic, decorated, enticing morsels on display in the show window of the candy shop. The passions, intuitions, and ideas that later mark Marcel Duchamp as an unusual artist are here introduced in tandem; from the start, he was captivated by multi-faceted forms of expression and the exploration of various styles and techniques.”