Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York
The first major museum exhibition devoted to a comprehensive view of surrealist sculpture brings together more than 100 works created by more than 20 artists from France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s.
鈥淭his exhibition reveals the totality of surrealist sculpture by highlighting two main approaches,鈥� says Valerie Fletcher, senior curator and the project鈥檚 organizer. 鈥淥rganic abstraction originated in the whimsical reliefs of Jean Arp and inspired many artists, including Henry Moore in Britain, Joan Mir贸 in Spain, and Isamu Noguchi in the United States. Found-object assemblages, which originated in Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Assisted Readymades, became a surrealist passion. Marvelous Objects also unifies into a single narrative the international development of surrealism in Europe and the United States.鈥�
Among the 85 sculptures in the exhibition are Arp鈥檚 Shirt Front and Fork, 1922; Duchamp鈥檚 Why Not Sneeze, Rose S茅lavy?, 1921; Alberto Giacometti鈥檚 Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932, and The Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void), 1935; Man Ray鈥檚 Object to be Destroyed, 1933; Salvador Dal铆鈥檚 Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936; Moore鈥檚 Stringed Figure No. 1, 1937; Mir贸鈥檚 Lunar Bird, 1945; and David Smith鈥檚 Saw Head, 1933 and Chain Head, 1933.
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The first major museum exhibition devoted to a comprehensive view of surrealist sculpture brings together more than 100 works created by more than 20 artists from France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s.
鈥淭his exhibition reveals the totality of surrealist sculpture by highlighting two main approaches,鈥� says Valerie Fletcher, senior curator and the project鈥檚 organizer. 鈥淥rganic abstraction originated in the whimsical reliefs of Jean Arp and inspired many artists, including Henry Moore in Britain, Joan Mir贸 in Spain, and Isamu Noguchi in the United States. Found-object assemblages, which originated in Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Assisted Readymades, became a surrealist passion. Marvelous Objects also unifies into a single narrative the international development of surrealism in Europe and the United States.鈥�
Among the 85 sculptures in the exhibition are Arp鈥檚 Shirt Front and Fork, 1922; Duchamp鈥檚 Why Not Sneeze, Rose S茅lavy?, 1921; Alberto Giacometti鈥檚 Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932, and The Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void), 1935; Man Ray鈥檚 Object to be Destroyed, 1933; Salvador Dal铆鈥檚 Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936; Moore鈥檚 Stringed Figure No. 1, 1937; Mir贸鈥檚 Lunar Bird, 1945; and David Smith鈥檚 Saw Head, 1933 and Chain Head, 1933.
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