CLAUDE CAHUN: 127TH BIRTHDAY

Ubu Gallery would like to commemorate the 127th birthday of artist and author Claude Cahun. They are best known for their surrealist photography, especially self-portraits. As a non-binary artist, they used their work to examine and defy the societal norms around sexuality and gender in the 1920’s.

The artist is also the subject of today’s Google Doodle, which can be seen on Google’s homepage or the link here.

Claude Cahun
Untitled (Jawbone on a tray with objects)
ca. 1936
Vintage gelatin silver print
4 5/8 x 4 5/8 inches (11.7 x 11.7 cm) – image
7 x 4 7/8 inches (17.8 x 12.4 cm) – sheet
(CAHU 27)

Founded in 1994, Ubu Gallery has presented almost 100 exhibitions of 20th Century avant-garde art, with an emphasis on the inter-war period of the 1920s-1930s, particularly the Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist movements. Ubu exhibits paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, and ephemera (books, posters, graphic design, etc.) and, wherever possible, highlights the interrelationships among these art forms.

Ubu Gallery is a well-known presence on the international cultural scene and enjoys a worldwide reputation for its serious explorations of areas covered by few other galleries, including acclaimed survey exhibitions of Polish, Romanian and Czech avant-garde art. Ubu’s focus on the avant-garde, particularly on historically important artists and movements that have not received appropriate attention, has earned the gallery frequent reviews in press throughout the world focused on the visual arts. Ubu participates in the most important Parisian art fair, FIAC, held annually in the Grand Palais (2010-2016), and has participated significantly in Art Basel (2003–2011) and the encyclopedic Frieze Masters fair (2012–2015) showcasing the best of antiquities to modern art, in Regent's Park in London.

CLAUDE CAHUN: 127TH BIRTHDAY

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