{"id":6405,"date":"2017-11-18T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:22:23","slug":"max-ernst-at-moma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/max-ernst-at-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Ernst at MOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCOLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n

Max Ernst: Beyond Painting
\nMuseum of Modern Art in New York City
\n23 September 23\u20131 January 2018<\/h2>\n

In 1919, Max Ernst was living in post-war Cologne, Germany with his new bride, Luise Straus. He went to Munich to study with Paul Klee and saw the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, which moved him to create fantastical images free of narrative, irrational, and surreal. He began cutting up mail-order catalogues, scientific manuals, and teaching-aides as a way of plumbing \u201chis own psyche for inspiration and to confront his own trauma.\u201d A survey of the artist\u2019s work is on view at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 23 September 2017 to 1 January 2018.<\/p>\n

This article appears in KOLAJ #21. To see the entire article, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMax Ernst: Beyond Painting\u201d features \u201capproximately 100 works drawn from the Museum\u2019s collection\u201d and \u201cincludes paintings that challenged material and compositional conventions; collages and overpaintings utilizing found printed reproductions; frottages (rubbings); illustrated books and collage novels; sculptures of painted stone and bronze; and prints made using a range of techniques.\u201d Of particular interest is the 1920 work Here Everything Is Still Floating<\/em> which shows how Ernst was an early pioneer of using photomechanical reproductions to create collage.<\/p>\n

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From the Museum:
\nThis exhibition surveys the career of the preeminent Dada and Surrealist artist Max Ernst (French and American, born Germany, 1891\u20131976), with particular emphasis on his ceaseless experimentation. Ernst began his pursuit of radical new techniques that went “beyond painting” to articulate the irrational and unexplainable in the wake of World War I, continuing through the advent and aftermath of World War II. Featuring approximately 100 works drawn from the Museum\u2019s collection, the exhibition includes paintings that challenged material and compositional conventions; collages and overpaintings utilizing found printed reproductions; frottages (rubbings); illustrated books and collage novels; sculptures of painted stone and bronze; and prints made using a range of techniques. Several major, multipart projects represent key moments in Ernst\u2019s long career, ranging from early Dada and Surrealist portfolios of the late 1910s and 1920s to his late masterpiece–a recent acquisition to MoMA’s collection–65 Maximiliana, ou l\u2019exercice ill\u00e9gal de l\u2019astronomie<\/em> (1964). This illustrated book comprises 34 aquatints complemented by imaginative typographic designs and a secret hieroglyphic script of the artist\u2019s own invention.<\/p>\n

This article appears in KOLAJ #21. To see the entire article, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Museum of Modern Art<\/strong>
\n11 West 53rd Street
\nNew York, New York 10019 USA
\n(212) 708-9400<\/p>\n

Hours:
\nEnter at 18 West 54th Street
\nDaily, 10:30AM-5:30PM
\nOpen until 9PM on Fridays and Saturdays through 30 December 2017<\/p>\n

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Image: (top)<\/strong>
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\nby Max Ernst
\n19.75″x13.25″
\ncut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints, cut-and-pasted printed paper, pencil, and pencil frottage on paper
\n1931
\nThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1935.
\nPhoto: John Wronn. \u00a9 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/ADAGP, Paris<\/p>\n

Image: (centre)<\/strong>
\nButterflies (Papillons)<\/em>
\nby Max Ernst
\n19.75″x25.5″
\ncut-and-pasted printed and painted paper, cellophane, and pencil on paper
\n1931
\nThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1935.
\nPhoto: John Wronn. \u00a9 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/ADAGP, Paris<\/p>\n

Image: (bottom)<\/strong>
\nThe Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses (La Biciclette gramin\u00e9e garnie de grelots les grisons grivel\u00e9s et les \u00e9chinodermes courbants l\u2019\u00e9chine pour qu\u00eater des caresses)<\/em>
\nby Max Ernst
\n29.25″x39.25″
\ngouache, ink, and pencil on printed paper on paperboard
\nc. 1921
\nThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1937.
\nPhoto: Robert Gerhardt. \u00a9 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York \/ ADAGP, Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Max Ernst: Beyond Painting Museum of Modern Art in New York City 23 September 23\u20131 January 2018 In 1919, Max Ernst was living in post-war Cologne, Germany with his new bride, Luise Straus. He went to Munich…<\/p>\n

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