JUDIT REIGL, L’ENVOL. DESSINS ET PEINTURES (1954-2012)

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. Judit Reigl, l’envol. Dessins et peintures (1954-2012) celebrates the artist’s paintings and drawings. The exhibition continues until February 23, 2025, and further information can be found here.

Judit Reigl
Untitled
Precursor to Outburst series 1955-57
November-December 1954
Signed & dated on recto
Ink on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
(REIG 56)

Exhibition images courtesy of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.

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Selected Images From The Exhibition

CENTRE POMPIDOU: SURREALISM

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Centre Pompidou. Surrealism celebrates the 100 years of Surrealism since the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto in 1924, the original manuscript of which is displayed at the heart of the exhibition space. In addition, the exhibition features fourteen sections, both thematic and chronological, which evoke the various literary figures and poetic principles that were inspirational to the movement. The exhibition will be open from September 4, 2024-January 13, 2025, and further information can be found here.

Unica Zürn
Untitled
Île de Ré, 1963
Signed & dated on recto
Ink & gouache on paper
19 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (50.2 x 65.4 cm)
(ZURN 98)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description A work with delicate and flowing lines to create a monster like figure. The lines are dense and appear as if scales. The creature has a large eye and mouth, which is open, and its head curves to the right and downward. The creature is also slightly tinted pink.

ADLER BEATTY: MANIC PIXIE NIGHTMARE DRAWINGS

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new group exhibition at Adler Beatty. Manic Pixie Nightmare Drawings is curated by artist Sedrick Chisom and traces the dynamics between Surrealist and contemporary art, evoking dreams and delusions as they relate to the feminine form. The exhibition is slated to run until May 3, 2024 and features contributions from Ubu Gallery by the artists Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer. Further information can be found at Adler Beatty’s website here.

Unica Zürn
Untitled
ca. 1963
Ink on paper
19 3/4 x 25 5/8 inches (50.2 x 65.1 cm)
Signed on recto
(ZURN 96)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A drawing using thin delicate lines to create a scaled pattern, perhaps a reptile with several arm or finger like shapes that branch off from the main part of the work. The main or central part of the work has two eye like shapes, below which is what appears to be a mouth with jagged teeth.

CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF JULIEN LEVY: THE MAN, HIS GALLERY, HIS LEGACY AT SHEPHERD GALLERY

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Shepherd/ W & K Galleries. Celebrating the Publication of Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy focuses on the famed art dealer and his gallery, which was a important venue in the 1930s and 1940s for Surrealists, avant-garde artists, as well as American photographers. The exhibition opens on January 26 and continues until February 24, 2024. Further information can be found on the gallery’s website here.

Maurice Grosser
Untitled (still life with corn)
1940
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 18 1/8 inches (26 x 46 cm)
(MGRO 1)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A painting of a corn cob on its side, with many kernels missing to show the reddish cob. Another cob, showing just the top half with missing kernels stands upright on the right side. The painting has a black background and an ornate brown wooden frame.

CASEY KAPLAN GALLERY: THIS ISN’T WHO IT WOULD BE, IF IT WASN’T WHO IT IS

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery opening on January 12, 2024. THIS ISN’T WHO IT WOULD BE, IF IT WASN’T WHO IT IS features artists such as Claude Cahun, Andy Warhol, and Sol LeWitt, and discusses how artists encourage the viewer to interpret their work in a myriad of different ways. The exhibition is slated to continue until February 17, 2024, and further information can be found here.

Claude Cahun
Untitled
1936
Vintage gelatin silver print
4 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches (11.7 x 14.6 cm)
Dated on verso
(CAHU 29)

Installation view: This Isn’t Who It Would Be, If It Wasn’t Who It Is, Organized by Alex Glauber,
Casey Kaplan, New York, January 12 – February 17, 2024.
Courtesy of Casey Kaplan, New York.
Photo: Jason Wyche

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A photograph of what might be a music or trinket box. The object is decorated with two figures of babies, one upright and one positioned as if falling off. The object has beaded decorations on top.

Selected Images From The Exhibition

JINDŘICH ŠTYRSKÝ: THE TRAUMA OF BIRTH

The Paris Art Contemporain Evening Sale at Sotheby’s is scheduled to take place on December 6, 2023. The auction will feature rare masterworks by artists such as Jean Dubuffet, ranging from the mid 20th to the 21st century. Among these important works is Jindřich Štyrský’s The Trauma of Birth. The painting, which is renowned not only because of its format and size, resembles a blackboard and was owned for over forty years by the artist Toyen after Štyrský’s death in 1942. The expert Karel Srp has called the work the most significant piece of Czech interwar Surrealism, and it is clear that each object depicted in the painting was of deep importance to the artist and his personal experiences. The Trauma of Birth is estimated to sell for over 120 million Czech crowns, or up to 5 million Euros, possibly making it the most expensive work by Štyrský to date. Further information about the work can be found here or in the article by Forbes here.

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A painting that is rectangular and has a black background, on which various objects are painting. The lower right corner shows a baby in an amniotic sac, and the upper left corner shows several rolled up blankets or other fabric with red handprints. The upper center part of the work shows a hand with long curled fingers and claws.

IT IS A PAINFUL THING TO BE ALONE: WE ARE BUT ONE AT DOX CENTRE, PRAGUE

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. It Is a Painful Thing to Be Alone: We Are But One is the first major European exhibition to feature the work of artist, musician, occultist, and writer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge since their death in 2020. Along with supplemental works by artists such as Hans Bellmer and Pierre Molinier, the exhibition focuses on the Pandrogyne Project, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge’s examination of love, gender, and consciousness. Further information about the exhibition can be found here.

Pierre Molinier
Ossipago se cache
[“Ossipago Hides”] ca. 1968–1970
Vintage gelatin silver print (photomontage)
7 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches (18.7 x 16.5 cm)
(MOLI 60)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A black and white collage photo, that shows a person leaning or sitting on a stool, wearing sheer thigh high stockings. Another person appears to be sitting on top of the first person with their legs spread and a phallic object inserted. The person's chest is bare and they have a beehive hairstyle. Another set of legs appears spread from the top of the person's shoulders.

JUDY CHICAGO: HERSTORY AT THE NEW MUSEUM

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at the New Museum. Judy Chicago: Herstory is dedicated to and spans the 60-year career of the artist, whose work includes painting, sculpture, glass work, and even needlepoint. Chicago’s feminist methodology is present through the lens of each art movement she has participated in, and the “exhibition within an exhibition” will feature works from over 80 other female artists, such as Frida Kahlo and Unica Zürn. The exhibition is slated to continue until January 14, 2024, and more information can be found here.

Unica Zürn
La Serpenta
[“The Serpent”] Paris, 1957
Oil on panel
19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (49.8 x 49.8 cm) – image
25 x 24 3/8 inches (63.5 x 61.9 cm) – mount
Signed & dated on recto
(ZURN 121)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description A work with a pink background showing multiple patterned serpent or tentacle like shapes in colors of yellow, green, and orange. A light green one eyed creature appears in the lower right corner.

UNE SEMAINE DE BONTÉ: MEER ONLINE MAGAZINE

Ubu Gallery is pleased to appear in the Arts section of online magazine Meer. The gallery’s current exhibition on Max Ernst’s collages for Une semaine de bonté is featured here alongside several installation images.

Max Ernst
Le Lion de Belfort 13
Photograph for Une Semaine de bonté [“A Week of Kindness”]
1934
Photograph of a collage
5 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (14.3 x 11.4 cm)
(MERN 75.11)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A black and white image of a kneeling lion figure, who is holding a woman by her forearm. The woman is sitting with one arm propping her up, with her legs bent. There are multiple figures in the background, appearing as if fighting.

PIERRE MOLINIER: APRIL 13, 1900 – MARCH 3, 1976

Pierre Molinier was a French photographer, painter, and “maker of objects.” He is known for his elaborate and provocative self-portraits, often posing with fetish objects and wearing lingerie. He would manipulate parts of photographs in order to produce new seamless “unreal” realities, which reflected his fetish obsession with legs, stockings and hermaphroditism. His work was supported by André Breton, who championed Molinier’s daring and even staged his first Paris exhibition in the 1950s. Molinier continued making his photographs until his death in 1976, after which his influence can be seen and felt in the work of many performance and body artists.

Pierre Molinier
Untitled (self-portrait)
1969
Vintage gelatin silver print
6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (17.1 x 11.4 cm)
“Hanel Koeck Collection” stamp & notations (some in artist’s hand) on verso
(MOLI 29)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. An image that a man standing in a corset, black sleeves, and black thigh high stockings. The subject stands with his left hand on a waist high stool, and the background shows a patterned room divider. The subject is smiling, and wears a mask like object over their eyes.