Selections from Gallery Inventory

Ubu

Ubu Gallery is pleased to have presented a small selection of staff favorites chosen from the gallery’s extensive 20th Century avant-garde holdings. ARTISTS Hans Bellmer, Janusz Maria Brzeski, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Hugnet, Nils Karsten, Jerzy Kujawski, Helmar Lerski, Andre Racz, Dr. Franz Roh, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satié, Stefan Themerson, Jacques Villeglé

A collage image showing a black and white photo of a dead rhinoceros laying on its side. A photograph of a woman wearing white lace shorts and a black blouse standing in a doorway appears in the foreground, while a woman in a white dress stands next to a snake by the rhinoceros.

FIAC 2013

Ubu

Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in FIAC 2013. In collaboration with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, Ubu Gallery presented a thematic exhibition focusing on eroticism. 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 …

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 showing a dark haired woman in a sun hat and white dress. A young girl stands behind her, and a man in a striped sailor uniform stands to her right as if grabbing her. He holds a gun in his right hand and points it at the woman. The background is red at the bottom and yellow at the top, showing a Marseille banner and black silhouettes of bridges and machinery.

Frieze Masters 2013

Ubu

Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in Frieze Masters 2013 with Galerie Berinson, Berlin. Ubu Gallery’s booth was located at G5, Regent’s Park, London. ARTISTS Berns & Hilla Becher, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Joseph Cornell, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, David Hare, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Georges Hugnet, Kurt Kranz, Roberto Matta, Johannes Molzahn, Meret Oppenheim, Hans Schmitz, George Scholz, …

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 collage showing a person's hand and wrist, which is placed on a circular surface, perhaps a table with a patterned tablecloth. Two moths or butterflies float above the hand, almost touching the fingers.

Jindřich Štyrský: Dreams

Ubu

Ubu Gallery was pleased to have presented Jindřich Štyrský: Dreams, an exhibition of photographs, collages, drawings and publications by the preeminent Czech avant-garde artist. Photographs from Na jehlách těchto dní [On the Needles of These Days, 1941] and collages from his erotic chef d’oeuvre Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu [Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream, 1933] were highlights …

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 a doll like figure with dark hair, with its face partially in shadow.

FIAC 2012

Ubu

Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in FIAC 2012. In collaboration with Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, Ubu Gallery presented a thematic exhibition focusing on the doll in Surrealist art. Although seemingly innocuous, the doll is an object full of meaning – from mass-produced mannequins to uncanny idols imbued with magic, the doll is an object of paradox. As an …

Frieze Masters 2012

Ubu

Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in Frieze Masters 2012 with Broadway 1602 Gallery, New York. Ubu Gallery was located at Regent’s Park, London, Stand C4. ARTISTS Theodore Brauner, Janusz Maria Brzeski, Jindřich Heisler, Dušan Janković, Ljubiša Jocić, Jerzy Kujawski, László Moholy-Nagy, Roman Opalka, Mihailo S. Petrov, Andre Racz, Judit Reigl, Arthur Segal, Henryk Stazewski, Jindřich Štyrský, Stefan Themerson, …

André Breton, Paul Éluard & Suzanne Muzard: 33 Collages

Ubu

Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of 33 Surrealist collages, collaboratively created by André Breton, Paul Éluard and Suzanne Muzard. The gallery simultaneously presented Transmissions, a contextual exhibition featuring artists in direct relationships with Breton, Éluard and Muzard. Transmissions will focus on significant artists represented in the gallery’s inventory, including Georges Hugnet, Hans Bellmer and David Hare. Never before exhibited in …

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 a doll like figure laying on a striped surface, perhaps a bed. The figure has dark hair, and is nude with no arms of lower legs.

Transmissions

Ubu

Ubu Gallery presented Transmissions, a contextual exhibition featuring artists in direct relationships with André Breton, Paul Éluard and Suzanne Muzard. Presented in conjunction with 33 Collages, the exhibition focused on significant artists represented in the gallery’s inventory, including Georges Hugnet, Hans Bellmer and David Hare. ARTISTS André Breton, Paul Éluard, Hans Bellmer, David Hare, Georges Hugnet, Man Ray RESOURCES Exhibition …

Bound: Hans Bellmer & Unica Zürn

Ubu

Ubu Gallery presented Bound: Hans Bellmer & Unica Zürn, an exhibition of over fifty works created over two decades — spanning the German artists’ relationship — from their meeting at Bellmer’s first exhibition in Germany after World War II at the Maison de France, Berlin (curated by Rudolph Springer) in 1953 until Zürn’s suicidal leap from their apartment at the …

Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers

Ubu

Ubu Gallery presented Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers, an exhibition of hand-painted photographic postcards by the eminent Surrealist artist, poet, bookbinding designer and critic. These bizarre, lusciously painted images illustrate Hugnet’s work, The Love Life of the Spumifers, where each accompanying text poetically and humorously catalogues the mating habits of a fantastical creature or Spumifer. The Love …