Uncategorized – Page 14 – Surrealist Phantoms

hans bellmer – plate from la poupée – 1936

Hans Bellmer, Bound, 1959

Jacques-André Boiffard , sans titre, 1930

Hans Bellmer, La Poupée, c. 1930.

“It was all worth my obsessive efforts, when, amid the smell of glue and wet plaster, the essence of all that is impressive would take shape and become a real object to be posessed.” – Hans Bellmer, Memories of a Doll Theme.

sodisnanee:

Max Dupain, Experimental Nudes

inneroptics:

Pablo Picasso -Cecil Beaton

eucanthos:

Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968)

Mile of String, 1942. First Papers of Surrealism exhibition, New York

The exhibition included paintings and sculptures by more than thirty
artists accompanied by examples of so-called ‘primitive art’, and was
designed by Marcel Duchamp, who living up to his reputation for
iconoclasm and conceptual innovation, produced one of the most audacious
exhibition installations of the early twentieth century, threading the
entire space of the gallery with his so-called ‘mile of string’

The way in which the
criss-crossing twine prohibited (blocked) engagement with the art on show might
well relate to Duchamp’s ongoing critique of surrealism…

Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972)

The Key in the Hand, 2015, The 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice/Italy, photo by Sunhi Mang

The key in the hand.

Photo Jon Gasca [source: Contemporary Art Blog – Curated by Jon Gasca, designer in STUA]