Victor Brauner. I am the dream. I am the inspiration.
Paris Museums| N° d'inventaire | 23094 |
| Format | 25 x 33 |
| Détails | 310 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782759604777 |
Born in Romania, Victor Brauner participated in the artistic effervescence of Bucharest in the 1920s, before joining the Surrealist movement in Paris in 1933 and remaining there until 1948, when he was excluded from the group. The war forced him, due to his Jewish status, his irregular situation, and his opposition to all forms of fascist and totalitarian oppression, to go underground in the south of France. Paradoxically, this period of fear and material deprivation was rich in technical invention (the use of wax and recycled materials) and forms. The post-war period was marked by a crossing of styles due to his regained freedom, without alleviating the anxieties and torments of the events surrounding him. Other influences are felt from psychoanalysis to wild thought through cycles, such as the Victors of the Onomatomanie series, the Rétractés, then Mythologies and Fêtes des mères. He creates a new language to show not reality, but the invisible springs of the world. The catalog presents new analyses on the artist with contributions from writers and art historians such as Georges Sebbag, Fabrice Flahutez, Radu Stern, Sophie Krebs, Camille Morando and Jeanne Brun. Completed by an illustrated biography, this monograph dedicated to the Romanian artist brings together more than a hundred paintings and drawings, essays by specialists as well as an anthology of texts, some of which are previously unpublished.
Born in Romania, Victor Brauner participated in the artistic effervescence of Bucharest in the 1920s, before joining the Surrealist movement in Paris in 1933 and remaining there until 1948, when he was excluded from the group. The war forced him, due to his Jewish status, his irregular situation, and his opposition to all forms of fascist and totalitarian oppression, to go underground in the south of France. Paradoxically, this period of fear and material deprivation was rich in technical invention (the use of wax and recycled materials) and forms. The post-war period was marked by a crossing of styles due to his regained freedom, without alleviating the anxieties and torments of the events surrounding him. Other influences are felt from psychoanalysis to wild thought through cycles, such as the Victors of the Onomatomanie series, the Rétractés, then Mythologies and Fêtes des mères. He creates a new language to show not reality, but the invisible springs of the world. The catalog presents new analyses on the artist with contributions from writers and art historians such as Georges Sebbag, Fabrice Flahutez, Radu Stern, Sophie Krebs, Camille Morando and Jeanne Brun. Completed by an illustrated biography, this monograph dedicated to the Romanian artist brings together more than a hundred paintings and drawings, essays by specialists as well as an anthology of texts, some of which are previously unpublished.