18/2/2008
Max Ernst
Albertina, Wien
Une semaine de bonte' - A Surrealistic Novel. These images are among the most enigmatic and fascinating manifestations of Surrealism. Linked together with loose and intertwined storylines, they offer many opportunities to make new discoveries and interpretations. In these works Max Ernst found images for dreams, drives and demonic metamorphoses, for rites of initiation and transitory moments, for mythical, religious and erotic encounters within the scope of which the laws of logic and nature are suspended.
The Albertina will present the illustrations of Max Ernst’s
book “Une semaine de bonté – A Surrealistic Novel”. The show will take place in close
cooperation with the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, whose director the Max Ernst specialist
Dr. Werner Spies will be the curator. For the first time in almost 75 years, the 182 pages of
the five volumes of the novel – which is clearly one of the key works of Surrealism – will
again be on view.
The images of "Une semaine de bonté" are among the most enigmatic and fascinating
manifestations of Surrealism. Linked together with loose and intertwined storylines, they
offer many opportunities to make new discoveries and interpretations. In these works Max
Ernst found images for dreams, drives and demonic metamorphoses, for rites of initiation
and transitory moments, for mythical, religious and erotic encounters within the scope of
which the laws of logic and nature are suspended.
Following its presentation at the Albertina, the exhibition will travel to the Max Ernst
Museum in Brühl and the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.
Press Conference 19 February 2007, 10 am
Opening 19 February 2007, 6.30 pm
Albertina
Albertinaplatz, 1 - Wien
Opening times Daily 10 am - 6 pm, Wed 10 am – 9 pm
Admission Regular euro 9.50, reduced euro 8.00/7.00