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Salvador Dalí - Frontispiz für André Breton und Paul Éluard, L'immaculée Conception, 1930-Radierung Sammlung - Gilbert Kaplan, New York, Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama/VBK, Wien 2011

From November 30, 2011 to January 15, 2012 – Albertina
In parallel to the Magritte exhibition the Kaplan Collection will be presented, uniting outstanding Graphic Art by the Surrealists Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí and many more important exponents of this art movement. These artists share a common devotion to the unreal and the fantastic. The Graphic Art presented in this exhibition will impressively illustrate how close the real and the unreal lie together in Surrealistic Art and will tempt the viewer to let his imagination  run free.

“Surrealism was a revolutionary idea in the arts in the early 1900s and 1920s, and is still a powerful influence on contemporary art,” according to McMullen Museum Curator Alston Conley. “These prints trace the development of the main figures in the surrealist movement from 1919 to 1971.”

Marcel Duchamp-H.O.O.Q., 1964 - Bleistift auf Reproduktion - Sammlung Gilbert Kaplan, New York, Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama/VBK, Wien 2011

The exhibition features over 100 prints by the foremost artists of the Surrealist movement. Works by Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Hans Bellmer, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray will be among those included in the exhibition.

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Hans Bellmer 1902 - 1975

Until the 15th of August – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Bodies morph and dissolve, limbs go missing, while others multiply; male and female sexual forms merge into each other and give birth to androgynous beings – the sexually charged work of Hans Bellmer (1902–1975) and Louise Bourgeois (born 1911, died aged 98 on 31 May 2010) bare many striking parallels to each other. Although their paths crossed in Paris during the Surrealist heyday, Hans Bellmer, who fled to Paris from Nazi Berlin in 1938, and Louise Bourgeois, who in the same year made the move from Paris to New York, never actually met each other in person. Both artists created their respective oeuvres in relative reclusion before subsequently becoming known to a wider audience in their later years. Now for the first time, the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg has created a dialogue between over 70 sculptural, graphic and photographic works by the two artists. Entitled ‘Double Sexus’, the exhibition sees the meeting of dolls and prostheses, with inviting glances gazing back at ballooning forms. Female fantasies and male fears, the ambiguous nature of everything sexual and the links between eroticism and creativity form the central topics of the exhibition. In the show, a display case is also dedicated to Hans Bellmer’s illustrations for Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye’, accompanied by a series of Louise Bourgeois’s current works from 2009.
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