European & Russian Photomontage, 1920-1940

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Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of European & Russian Photomontage, 1920–1940: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection. ARTISTS Francis Bernard, Max Burchartz, Johannis Canis, Fre Cohen, Walter Dexel, Nikolai Andreevich Dolgorukov, Aleksander Dortmann, Vassily Nikolaevich Elkin, Max Gerbhard, John Heartfield, Boris Ignatovitch, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Joszef Pecsi, Enrico Prampolini, Mikhail Razulevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Jan Rot, Xanti Schawinsky, Paul …

A photograph of a woman's legs spread apart, with the woman's hands touching and spreading apart her genitalia. The woman has painted nails and wears a dark garment.

Hans Bellmer: Octopus Time

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Ubu Gallery announced the release of a new book, Octopus Time: Bellmer Painting, by Herbert Lust, accompanied by an exhibition highlighting a number of works reproduced in the book. The exhibition presented paintings, works on paper, sketchbooks, various manuscripts, sculpture and photography, including Bellmer’s controversial work, titled by Lust I Am God, which appears on the cover of the book. …

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 figure seem from the waist up. Its head is turned to the left and toward a rose laying next to its shoulder. The doll appears to be laying or standing in front of a brocade like surface or fabric.

Art | 39 | Basel

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Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in Art | 39 | Basel with Galerie Berinson, Berlin. ARTISTS Vito Acconci, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Janusz Maria Brzeski, Claude Cahun, D’Ora, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Wilhelm Freddie, Otto Freundlich, Raoul Hausmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Alfred Kubin, Jerzy Kujawski, Matta, Carlo Mense, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Motherwell, Roman Opalka, Francis Picabia, Herbert Ploberger, …

Art | 38 | Basel

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Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in Art | 38 | Basel with Galerie Berinson, Berlin. ARTISTS Hans Bellmer, André Breton, Bob Brown, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dali, Burgoyne Diller, Otto Dix, Cesar Domela, Max Ernst, David Hare, Auguste Herbin, Gussy Hippold-Ahnert, Hannah Höch, Heinrich Hoerle, André Masson, Matta, László Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Robert Motherwell, Richard Oelze, Francis Picabia, Albert …

Richard Oelze: Paintings & Drawings from the 1950s & 1960s

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Ubu Gallery presented Richard Oelze: Paintings & Drawings from the 1950s & 1960s, an exhibition of works by a one-time Bauhaus student whose early contact with the works of Dalí, Ernst and Magritte made him one of the few German artists with direct contacts to and affinities with the Paris Surrealists. Oelze’s works capture his belief that the making of …

Franz Roh: Photography & Collage from the 1930s

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Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of more than 60 vintage photographs and 20 collages by Franz Roh, the German art historian, critic and photographer who not only defined the European avant-garde between the two World Wars, but who—as both critic and artist—influenced the collective trends seen in much photo-based work today. Ubu Gallery’s exhibition presents works largely from the 1930s, …

Art | 37 | Basel

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Ubu Gallery is pleased to have participated in Art | 37 | Basel with Galerie Berinson, Berlin. ARTISTS Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Fortunato Depero, Otto Dix, Marthe Tour Donas, Hugo Erfurth, Max Ernst, Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Ernst Fritsch, Hildegard Heise, Florence Henri, Georges Hugnet, André Kertész, Moriz Melzer, E.L.T. Mesens, Lee Miller, László Moholy-Nagy, Richard Oelze, …

A photo of a nude doll or mannequin like figure, without arms or legs. It is positioned as hanging on a tree. The photo is tinted light green and yellow.

Hans Bellmer: Petites Anatomies, Petites Images

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Ubu Gallery announced an exhibition of approximately 70 small-format, vintage photographs by Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), whose overt influence on current art trends still far outweighs the recognition of his emotionally- and intellectually-charged oeuvre. The exhibition presented the earliest examples of Bellmer’s photographic output—specifically, miniatures created in 1934 in connection with the realization of the original German edition of Die Puppe …

Pencil drawing of several figures, including a bearded man leaning over a female figure.

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885–1939): Drawings from the 1930s

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Ubu Gallery presented “Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885–1939): Drawings from the 1930s,” an exhibition of over sixty rare works by one of the most mythical personas to emerge from interwar Europe. An artist, theorist and visionary, Witkiewicz, also known as Witkacy, was a central figure among the Polish intellectual elite of the 1920s and 1930s. He revealed the multiplicity of the …

Aspects of Russian Art, 1915–1935: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection

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Ubu Gallery presented “Aspects of Russian Art, 1915–1935: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection,” an exhibition of drawings, collages, photomontages, prints, posters, maquettes and ephemera from one of the foremost collections of Russian avant-garde art. Exceptional Futurist, Realist and Constructivist works that explore the remarkable range of artistic expression during the early part of the 20th Century in Russia …