Yves Tanguy
dal 28/6/2007 al 29/9/2007
Segnalato da
28/6/2007
Yves Tanguy
Musee des beaux-arts, Quimper
L'univers surrealiste. Over 50 paintings, from compositions marked by the early Cubism of the twenties up to the Multiplication des arcs from 1954. Automatic drawings, erotic drawings, exquisite corpses, illustrations for works by Hugnet, Tzara or Peret.
L'univers surrealiste
He is French and one of the greater figures of the surrealist movement. Yet the museums in France have very few of his works. That is because Tanguy (1900-1955) went to build his success in the United States, where he settled in 1939 to become an American citizen in 1948. There he met with his school friend, Pierre Matisse, Henri's son, who dedicated various personal exhibitions to him. Yet Tanguy never forgot his native Brittany and even asked that his ashes be scattered in the bay of Douarnenez.
It is therefore very appropriate that a museum in the region dedicate a complete retrospective to him, half a century after his death. It is definitely complete, with over 50 paintings, from compositions marked by the early Cubism of the twenties up to the Multiplication des arcs from 1954. Automatic drawings, erotic drawings, exquisite corpses, illustrations for works by Hugnet, Tzara or Péret: Tanguy's spiritual landscapes, the painter's drops and mechanical forms «des épouvantables élégances aériennes» -Dreadful aerial elegances- (André Breton) have never been so numerous in France.
Musee des beaux-arts
40, place Saint-Corentin - Quimper