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Edmund Kesting (1892–1970)

Ubu Gallery is pleased to present a selection of photographs by Edmund Kesting (1892–1970), a pioneer who pushed the photographic medium far beyond simple description. Moving fluidly between painting and experimental photography, Kesting used techniques like multiple exposures, photograms, and superimposition to transform reality into images of intense graphic and psychological power.

The exhibition traces the extraordinary breadth of Kesting’s interests, from his formal abstractions of the natural world (Libelle and Fish) and intimate portraiture (Lachender Junge) to his kinetic studies of dance featuring Dore Hoyer. Also featured is Kesting’s profound post-war imagery of a ruined Dresden—including his Totentanz series and the striking anti-war statement Nie Wieder Krieg. Together, these works reveal an artist relentlessly committed to exploring movement, fragmentation, memory, and abstraction.

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE EXHIBITION

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.

Edmund Kesting (1892–1970)

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