The Gaze of Desire
dal 10/3/2005 al 29/5/2005
Segnalato da
J. A. Boiffard
Man Ray
Eli Lotar
Claude Cahun
Dora Maar
Rene Magritte
Hans Bellmer
Ivo Kranzfelder
Annabelle Gorgen
10/3/2005
The Gaze of Desire
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Metamorphosis, fetishization, gender-switching, scandalization and hallucination were some of the central themes addressed by Surrealist photographers. The exhibition featuring loans from numerous international museums and collections, presents a survey of photography within the Surrealist movement during the period 1924-39. In conjunction with the 3rd Triennial of Photography 2005 accompanied by an extensive programme of events focusing on photography.
Surrealist Photography
Curator of the exhibition Dr. Ivo Kranzfelder.
Curator in the Hamburg Kunsthalle Dr. Annabelle Görgen
As the first major art movement of the 20th century, Surrealism introduced the
medium of photography into artistic practice. One of the founders of the
Surrealist movement in 1924 in Paris was a photographer - J. A. Boiffard - and
its members included photographers such as the American Man Ray and the
Frenchman Eli Lotar, along with Claude Cahun and Dora Maar, whose work has
recently been rediscovered. Other visual artists within the movement, for
example the Belgian René Magritte or the German Hans Bellmer, also incorporated
the relatively young medium into their work.
Photography made an essential contribution to the development of Surrealist
aesthetics by giving pictorial form to the "gaze of desire". Metamorphosis,
fetishization, gender-switching, scandalization and hallucination were some of
the central themes addressed by Surrealist photographers. In addition, new
possibilities of using the medium were explored in Surrealist novels and
journals.
Following on from last year's extensive shows of Surrealist art in Paris and
Düsseldorf -
in which photography played only a marginal role - this new exhibition in the
Hamburg Kunsthalle, featuring loans from numerous international museums and
collections, presents a survey of photography within the Surrealist movement
during the period
1924-39.
The exhibition includes loans from national and international private
collections in New York, France and Germany and from galleries and major museums
in Germany, Britain and France such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Musée
d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris.
The exhibition is being staged in conjunction with the 3rd Triennial of
Photography - Hamburg 2005 and will be accompanied by an extensive programme of
events focusing on photography.
More informations on http://www.begierde-im-blick.de
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