ALFRED JARRY: A CARNIVAL OF BEING, MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

One of the Morgan Library & Musuem’s (New York) current exhibits is Alfred Jarry: A Carnival of Being. Most known for his play Ubu Roi, Jarry inspired the Surrealist and Dada movements and ushered in the transition to 20th century modernism. In addition to writing, Jarry applied his subversive viewpoint to many other disciplines. He was a poet, puppeteer, critic, graphic artist, and even an early experimenter in visual typography. Through a variety of mediums, Jarry’s motto remains clear – “Living is the carnival of Being.” Further information about the exhibition can be found on the museum’s website.

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.

ALFRED JARRY: A CARNIVAL OF BEING, MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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