MASSIMO DE CARLO GALLERY: VSPACE EXHIBITION

Ubu Gallery is please to take part in a new exhibition held at Massimo De Carlo Gallery. An entirely virtual exhibition, How They Met Themselves: Folie à Deux is curated by Piotr Uklański and explores the various kinds of partnerships and couplings between an artist and their muse. Famous examples throughout art history include Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer, and Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Lizzie Siddall.

Though the term “folie à deux” may have connotations of madness and obsession, the exhibition subverts this meaning and delves into these relationships as an exploration of their complexity and psychic intensity. The exhibition can be viewed online here.

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.

MASSIMO DE CARLO GALLERY: VSPACE EXHIBITION

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