The subversion of images
dal 16/6/2010 al 11/9/2010
Segnalato da
Man Ray
Hans Bellmer
Claude Cahun
Raoul Ubac
Jacques-Andre Boiffard
Maurice Tabard
Leo Malet
Victor Brauner
Andre Breton
16/6/2010
The subversion of images
Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid
Surrealism, photography, film
Surrealism, photography, film. This exhibition brings together nearly 400 works, giving us a rare overview of surrealist photography. A broad selection of the finest proofs by Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Raoul Ubac, Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Maurice Tabard will be shown alongside rarely seen images which reveal a number of surrealist ways of using photography, such as publications in magazines or artists' books, advertisements, collections of images, fascination for the raw print, pictures taken in photo booths and group photographs etc. The event introduces the public to unknown series of collages by such renowned artists as Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud and Georges Hugnet, the photographic games of Leo Malet and Victor Brauner and highlights personalities like Artur Harfaux and Benjamin Fondane.