MAZZOTTADR Martina, PECH Jürgen, ROUSSEAU Pascal.
Max Ernst: Magical Worlds, Liberated Worlds.
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| N° d'inventaire | 28158 |
| Format | 24 x 28 |
| Détails | 192 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754113250 |
Official catalogue of the Max Ernst exhibition at the Hôtel de Caumont from May 4 to October 8, 2023.
An erudite artist and prodigious experimenter, Max Ernst crossed the century of the avant-gardes with an insatiable thirst for creation and left behind a complex and very personal body of work. An artist associated with the Dada group and Surrealism, he followed a personal path, detaching himself from the group's modalities and producing visionary and lucid works. Through nearly 120 works, this catalog retraces the steps of this creative genius as a free and singular personality, and particularly highlights the close connection he maintained with nature, play, magic, and freedom.
While the scope of his work remains largely unknown to the general public, the extravagance and polysemy of Max Ernst's output are impressive. Born in Germany, he created a Dada community in Cologne in 1919 before moving to Paris, where he participated from the outset in the development of André Breton's surrealism. He created numerous collages and invented new techniques, such as frottage. After being interned at the start of World War II near the Hôtel de Caumont (at the Camp des Milles in Aix-en-Provence), Max Ernst fled France and took refuge in the United States. He returned to France in 1953 and continued to work intensively in painting, drawing, sculpture, and goldsmithing.
Max Ernst constantly reinvented himself throughout his career. His work is informed by philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, alchemy, art history, literature, and poetry. This catalog focuses on the major themes of the worlds Max Ernst created by illustrating the recurrence of themes that run through his work, particularly those related to the four elements—water, air, earth, and fire—which, according to ancient philosophical tradition and alchemy, make up all the matter of the natural world.
The artist's universe is both disconcerting and astonishing. A great intellectual and humanist artist—in the neo-Renaissance sense of the term—he continually challenges perception by combining logic and formal harmony with unfathomable enigmas, while dreamlike and fantastical coexist to create landscapes of impenetrable mysteries. Stone forests, chimerical animals, embodied masks, and anthropomorphic birds—the enigmatic and sometimes even ironic beauty of Max Ernst's works immerses us in the extravagance of his magical and liberated worlds.
This exhibition will benefit from exceptional loans from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, the Guggenheim Venice, the Cantini Museum, the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl and numerous private collectors who wish to remain anonymous.
An erudite artist and prodigious experimenter, Max Ernst crossed the century of the avant-gardes with an insatiable thirst for creation and left behind a complex and very personal body of work. An artist associated with the Dada group and Surrealism, he followed a personal path, detaching himself from the group's modalities and producing visionary and lucid works. Through nearly 120 works, this catalog retraces the steps of this creative genius as a free and singular personality, and particularly highlights the close connection he maintained with nature, play, magic, and freedom.
While the scope of his work remains largely unknown to the general public, the extravagance and polysemy of Max Ernst's output are impressive. Born in Germany, he created a Dada community in Cologne in 1919 before moving to Paris, where he participated from the outset in the development of André Breton's surrealism. He created numerous collages and invented new techniques, such as frottage. After being interned at the start of World War II near the Hôtel de Caumont (at the Camp des Milles in Aix-en-Provence), Max Ernst fled France and took refuge in the United States. He returned to France in 1953 and continued to work intensively in painting, drawing, sculpture, and goldsmithing.
Max Ernst constantly reinvented himself throughout his career. His work is informed by philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, alchemy, art history, literature, and poetry. This catalog focuses on the major themes of the worlds Max Ernst created by illustrating the recurrence of themes that run through his work, particularly those related to the four elements—water, air, earth, and fire—which, according to ancient philosophical tradition and alchemy, make up all the matter of the natural world.
The artist's universe is both disconcerting and astonishing. A great intellectual and humanist artist—in the neo-Renaissance sense of the term—he continually challenges perception by combining logic and formal harmony with unfathomable enigmas, while dreamlike and fantastical coexist to create landscapes of impenetrable mysteries. Stone forests, chimerical animals, embodied masks, and anthropomorphic birds—the enigmatic and sometimes even ironic beauty of Max Ernst's works immerses us in the extravagance of his magical and liberated worlds.
This exhibition will benefit from exceptional loans from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, the Guggenheim Venice, the Cantini Museum, the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl and numerous private collectors who wish to remain anonymous.
An erudite artist and prodigious experimenter, Max Ernst crossed the century of the avant-gardes with an insatiable thirst for creation and left behind a complex and very personal body of work. An artist associated with the Dada group and Surrealism, he followed a personal path, detaching himself from the group's modalities and producing visionary and lucid works. Through nearly 120 works, this catalog retraces the steps of this creative genius as a free and singular personality, and particularly highlights the close connection he maintained with nature, play, magic, and freedom.
While the scope of his work remains largely unknown to the general public, the extravagance and polysemy of Max Ernst's output are impressive. Born in Germany, he created a Dada community in Cologne in 1919 before moving to Paris, where he participated from the outset in the development of André Breton's surrealism. He created numerous collages and invented new techniques, such as frottage. After being interned at the start of World War II near the Hôtel de Caumont (at the Camp des Milles in Aix-en-Provence), Max Ernst fled France and took refuge in the United States. He returned to France in 1953 and continued to work intensively in painting, drawing, sculpture, and goldsmithing.
Max Ernst constantly reinvented himself throughout his career. His work is informed by philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, alchemy, art history, literature, and poetry. This catalog focuses on the major themes of the worlds Max Ernst created by illustrating the recurrence of themes that run through his work, particularly those related to the four elements—water, air, earth, and fire—which, according to ancient philosophical tradition and alchemy, make up all the matter of the natural world.
The artist's universe is both disconcerting and astonishing. A great intellectual and humanist artist—in the neo-Renaissance sense of the term—he continually challenges perception by combining logic and formal harmony with unfathomable enigmas, while dreamlike and fantastical coexist to create landscapes of impenetrable mysteries. Stone forests, chimerical animals, embodied masks, and anthropomorphic birds—the enigmatic and sometimes even ironic beauty of Max Ernst's works immerses us in the extravagance of his magical and liberated worlds.
This exhibition will benefit from exceptional loans from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, the Guggenheim Venice, the Cantini Museum, the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl and numerous private collectors who wish to remain anonymous.