Pri猫re de Toucher - Homage to Maeght
Omer Tiroche Gallery is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition Pri猫re de Toucher 鈥� Homage to Maeght. The exhibition focuses on the renowned Surrealist show Surrealisme en 1947, which took place in Paris at the Galerie Maeght in 1947. Along with Aim茅 Maeght, Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp formed and curated this first post-war Surrealist exhibition.
Galerie Maeght first opened its doors in Paris in 1945 and saw instant success. Pioneering patrons of Modern Art, Aim茅 and Marguerite Maeght ran galleries in Europe as well as the revered Foundation Maeght in the South of France. The charismatic pair created a welcoming environment that cultivated and nurtured the artists, poets and writers who would gather around them. At the beginning of 1947 whilst visiting New York, Aim茅 suggested to Andr茅 Breton 鈥� who had emigrated to the United States during the War 鈥� that he should 鈥榯ake stock of Surrealism鈥� and, together with Duchamp, they conceived the idea for the next official Surrealist exhibition; the first since the end of the War. The Surrealist movement held their first notable exhibition in 1938 at Galerie des Beaux Arts and later First Papers of Surrealism in 1942, New York.
The focus of the exhibition was to reunite Surrealism and reorient it to a Post-War reality. Breton wrote letters to several artists inviting them to exhibit new works. In his letters he thoroughly outlined the details of the show, leaving little room for alterations. Central to his thesis of the exhibition was his notion of the 鈥楴ew Myth鈥�. With the help of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler and 100 artists from 25 different counties who produced over 200 artworks, the gallery was turned into a complex labyrinth of orchestrated rooms designed to create a series of initiations that intended to spiritually awaken the French society after the attrocities of World War II and enable them to be overcome with a creative rebirth. The initiations came in many stages, starting with ascending the gallery鈥檚 21 steps which had been transformed into the spines of books from classical Romantic and esoteric literature. Another, was Duchamp鈥檚 Salle de Pluie (Rain Room), where visitors would enter the room through a curtain of artificial rain; the epitome of symbolic purification and rebirth.
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Omer Tiroche Gallery is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition Pri猫re de Toucher 鈥� Homage to Maeght. The exhibition focuses on the renowned Surrealist show Surrealisme en 1947, which took place in Paris at the Galerie Maeght in 1947. Along with Aim茅 Maeght, Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp formed and curated this first post-war Surrealist exhibition.
Galerie Maeght first opened its doors in Paris in 1945 and saw instant success. Pioneering patrons of Modern Art, Aim茅 and Marguerite Maeght ran galleries in Europe as well as the revered Foundation Maeght in the South of France. The charismatic pair created a welcoming environment that cultivated and nurtured the artists, poets and writers who would gather around them. At the beginning of 1947 whilst visiting New York, Aim茅 suggested to Andr茅 Breton 鈥� who had emigrated to the United States during the War 鈥� that he should 鈥榯ake stock of Surrealism鈥� and, together with Duchamp, they conceived the idea for the next official Surrealist exhibition; the first since the end of the War. The Surrealist movement held their first notable exhibition in 1938 at Galerie des Beaux Arts and later First Papers of Surrealism in 1942, New York.
The focus of the exhibition was to reunite Surrealism and reorient it to a Post-War reality. Breton wrote letters to several artists inviting them to exhibit new works. In his letters he thoroughly outlined the details of the show, leaving little room for alterations. Central to his thesis of the exhibition was his notion of the 鈥楴ew Myth鈥�. With the help of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler and 100 artists from 25 different counties who produced over 200 artworks, the gallery was turned into a complex labyrinth of orchestrated rooms designed to create a series of initiations that intended to spiritually awaken the French society after the attrocities of World War II and enable them to be overcome with a creative rebirth. The initiations came in many stages, starting with ascending the gallery鈥檚 21 steps which had been transformed into the spines of books from classical Romantic and esoteric literature. Another, was Duchamp鈥檚 Salle de Pluie (Rain Room), where visitors would enter the room through a curtain of artificial rain; the epitome of symbolic purification and rebirth.
