Ubu Gallery is pleased to have presented a significant exhibition of drawings by Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), a Surrealist whose overt influence on current art trends far outweighs the critical recognition afforded his dexterous and emotionally-charged oeuvre. The exhibition showcased a selection of more than 30 drawings spanning Bellmer’s remarkable career. Although most acclaimed for the life-sized adolescent female dolls he …
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Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in FIAC 2015. In collaboration with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, Ubu Gallery presented a booth that explored the relationship between Surrealism and Abstraction in both European and American movements. Abstraction is, at its root, quite similar to the principles of Surrealism: abstract art is not representative of the material reality one experiences in …
Ubu Gallery was pleased to present Erotica at Frieze Masters 2015, Booth F10, Regent’s Park, London. Irrespective of our differences over what is appropriate or permissible, eroticism is a fixture in society’s every day, whether explicitly or through subtle undertones. Deriving from the Greek concept of “eros,” eroticism encompasses a broad range of meanings, including a physiological and psychological dimension. …
Ubu Gallery was pleased to present Street Life: Weimar Works on Paper, a collection of prints, drawings and publications created during the German Weimar Republic and featuring works by Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Otto Dix (1891-1969), George Grosz (1893-1959) and Georg Scholz (1890-1945), among others. In the post World War I period of acute political polarization, a wide range of visual …
Ubu Gallery presented Judit Reigl: Annus Mirabilis, Annus Horribilis. Works from May 1954 – June 1955, an exhibition of drawings, collages and paintings made in the course of a single year. For her biographers, 1954 is considered the annus mirabilis in Judit Reigl’s career, the year of her discovery by André Breton. Moved by Reigl’s 1950 painting, They Have an …
Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in FIAC 2014. In collaboration with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, Ubu Gallery presented a thematic exhibition focusing on the Surrealist landscape. The subversion of the real was an insatiable fantasy explored in Surrealism. The Surrealists transformed Landscape from a natural, concrete representation of a physical location to an abstracted, imaginary internal plane, representing …
Ubu Gallery and Galerie Berinson, Berlin were pleased to present Hans Bellmer & Unica Zürn at Frieze Masters 2014, London. Beginning with Bellmer’s highly influential poupée [“doll”] photographs from the mid-1930s, the display at Booth F10, Regent’s Park also includes a series of Bellmer’s erotic photographs for Georges Bataille’s “Story of the Eye,” as well as drawings and paintings by …
Ubu Gallery is pleased to have presented Knud Lonberg-Holm: The Invisible Architect, a debut exhibition devoted to this overlooked, yet highly influential, 20th Century modernist. Never-before-seen photographs, architectural drawings, letters, graphic design, and ephemera from Lonberg-Holm’s remarkably diverse career were on view. The exhibition, which consisted of selections from the extensive archive assembled by architectural historian Marc Dessauce, solidified the …
Ubu Gallery presented Witnessing Visions: Brion Gysin, Henri Michaux, Judit Reigl, Unica Zürn, focusing on works on paper from the 1950s and 60s. The exhibition featured automatic writings, drawings, frottage and decalcomania. Although each artist has proven difficult to place in the art historical canon, the artists share a number of similarities—including, a tendency to utilize language and writing, the …
