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Christie's Presents "Art of the Surreal"
By Scott Martin
posted: 01-15-10
Francis Picabia, Nerii
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On February 2, Christie's will hold its 10th annual Art of the Surreal sale dedicated to the work of artists associated with Andre Breton and his circle. Works up for auction include two paintings by Marcel Duchamp's lifelong friend Francis Picabia -- one, Nerii, Duchamp characterized as pointing the way into a third dimension, and is expected to bring $800,000 or more. Multiple canvasses by Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico are also represented, as are single works by Yves Tanguy and Roberto Matta.

The Christie's site has a full listing

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Dada South
By Scott Martin
posted: 01-14-10
Hannah Hoch, Abduction
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Zurich, Berlin, Koln, Paris, New York ... Cape Town. The ambit of dada defied easy geographical classification as well as artistic convention and authoritarian politics, sometimes emerging half a century and half a world away from its Swiss origins. To explore dada's influence on South African "resistance art" and, in turn, echoes of non-Western art on the dadas themselves, the Iziko South African Art Gallery in Cape Town has collected works from the usual suspects (including Sophie Täuber-Arp, Hans Arp, Hans Richter, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray) with dada-tinged art from the anti-apartheid movement.

In addition to being one of the first comprehensive dada exhibits in South Africa, the show serves as a rare showcase for the often ethnographically oriented collages of Berlin dada Hannah Höch. South African artists with works on display include Lucas Seage, Neil Goedhal, Jane Alexander and contemporary names like Robin Rhode, Moshekwa Langa, Nicholas Hlobo, Christain Nerf and Donna Kukama.

(Through February 28. More detail at www.iziko.org.za.)

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Disciplined Spontaneity

posted: 01-13-10
John Cage & Joseph Beuys, Good Morning Mr Orwell (1983)
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The elegance of chance is on display at New York gallery ZONE: CONTEMPORARY ART, featuring variants on the Surrealist game of exquisite corpse as well as other works created by Jackie Matisse, Sol LeWitt, John Cage and Joseph Beuys. Potentially destructive processes are prominent; one of the Cage pieces was created by pressing glass shards into paper, effectively operating as a meditation on the resultant image as the record of incremental damage to a once-blank surface, while Pilyun Ahn's intricate chocolate sculptures both run the risk of melting and challenge viewers hungry for a snack.

(At ZONE through February 20.)

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The Magical Films of Joseph Cornell

posted: 01-12-10
Joseph Cornell, Sand Fountain
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A rare screening of Joseph Cornell's short films provides an occasion to reflect on the apparent relationships between his artistic preoccupations (assemblage, microcosm, memory) and those of longtime associate Marcel Duchamp (assemblage, "the waterfall and the illuminating gas"). The word "dreamlike" is often used to characterize these blind cinematic anecdotes, where significance is elusive, bound primarily by the film frame; the effect is paradoxically neither purely "retinal" nor overtly cerebral, reminiscent of the famously haunted quality of Duchamp's Étant donnés.

(Those in the Chicago area may see the films themselves on Tuesday, January 12 at Doc Films; start time is 7 p.m. A commercial DVD is also available.)

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"Blind Man" Show in London

posted: 01-11-10
Blind Man, issue 2 of 2 (inside pages)
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The Institute of Contemporary Art has brought the successful exhibition, "For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat that Isn't There," featuring a new printing of Marcel Duchamp's proto-dada journal Blind Man, to London. Taking its title from a quote attributed to Charles Darwin (who compared the blind man's search to the work of mathematicians), the show celebrates the quixotic and speculative nature of the hunt for facts -- especially the facts of art -- by bringing together aggressively non-retinal works that reflect "the pleasures of finding our way in the dark."

Mathematical paradoxes, deliberate ambiguities and outright absurdity dominate the submissions from roughly 20 artists, including Dave Hullfish Bailey and Mariana Castillo (sculpture), Nashashibi/Skaer and Peter Fischli & David Weiss (film), Matt Mullican and David William (installation), and Bruno Munari (photography). Both issues of Blind Man, co-edited by Duchamp in New York (1917) and featuring an exhaustive analysis of the curious circumstances surrounding critical response to artist Richard Mutt's unorthodox Fountain, will be available; at previous iterations of this show, they sold for original cover price (10 to 15 cents).

(Through January 31. For more details, visit the ICA site.)

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