Jindřich Štyrský: On the Needles of These Days. Photographs, 1934–1935
September 21, 1994 - October 22, 1994
This — the inaugural exhibition of Ubu Gallery — consisted of a rare group of photographs by the Czech avant-garde artist, Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942). These photographs were the basis for the artist’s surrealist masterpiece, On the Needles of These Days, published clandestinely in 1941 with original photographs and more widely in 1945 with gravure reproductions. The photographs in this exhibition were accompanied by a characteristically surrealist and anti-war, anti-Nazi poem by Jindřich Heisler (1914–1953).
ARTISTS
Jindřich Heisler, Jindřich Štyrský
RESOURCES
Exhibition checklist
Press release
The Marvelous in the Everyday: The Surrealist Photography of Jindřich Štyrský / Dr. Antonin Dufek
A facsimile reprint of the 1945 trade edition is available to purchase from the Ubu Gallery shop.
PRESS
The New York Times / Art Review / October 7, 1994 / Charles Hagen
Flash Art / Galleries USA / October 1994
Zprávy / Revue Fotografie / Galerie Section / 1 reproduction
Art + Auction / Eye on New York / Fall 1994 / A.W. Lercher
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / “Auf den Nadeln Dieser Tage” / November 12, 1994 / Milan Chlumsky / 1 reproduction
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE UBU GALLERY SHOP
On the Needles of These Days
Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream
Behind The Surrealist Curtain: Sex, Sensuality & Silence
SELECTED WORKS FROM THE EXHIBITION
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