“Surrealism and the rue Blomet” Exhibition
Eykyn Maclean
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Eykyn Maclean presents Surrealism and the rue Blomet, the first exhibition to explore the rue Blomet, one of the founding centers of the Surrealist movement.
Beginning in 1922, the adjacent studios at 45 rue Blomet, occupied by André Masson and Joan Miró, became a daily congregation spot for the leading figures of Surrealism – the artists Jean (Hans) Arp, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Juan Gris, Georges Malkine, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Yves Tanguy, and the writers and poets Antonin Artaud, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Armand Salacrou, and Gertrude Stein. They gathered together to eat, drink, smoke, play cards, and most importantly, to discuss literature and ideas, to write, and to paint.
The exhibition will explore this period through a variety of media including painting, drawing, and sculpture, as well as documentary photographs, and first edition books. A film by Man Ray and Robert Desnos will be screened, and original tracks of Biguine music from the Bal Nègre dance hall, a favorite of the Surrealists and located just steps away at 33 rue Blomet, will add to this exciting, multimedia presentation.
A fully illustrated, hardcover catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. Mary Ann Caws, a leading scholar of Surrealist literature and art, will write a new essay on the topic as well as provide translations of essays by Desnos and Leiris about their time on the rue Blomet, both of which will appear in English for the very first time.
You are listening to a track of Biguine music, recorded by the Bal Nègre house band in 1930 and led by Ernest Léardée. The song is entitled Maracaïbo.
[Image: Joan Miró “Peinture (Le Cheval de cirque)” (1927) Oil on canvas, 96.8 x 129.9 cm. Private Collection © 2013 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
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Schedule
from November 01, 2013 to December 13, 2013
Artist(s)
André Masson, Joan Miró et al.