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May 16 - August 1, 2015Info
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http://gallerywendinorris.com/
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(415) 346-7812
Science in Surrealism marks the first exhibition devoted to Surrealist artists who were interested in investigating the scientific advances of the first half of the twentieth century, especially those related to quantum physics and the Theory of Relativity. The exhibition will include approximately 20 pristine works that have rarely been exhibited, including oils by Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Marcel Jean, Matta, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Kurt Seligmann and Yves Tanguy, as well as a selection of rare 1930s works on paper by František Janoušek. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 70-page, hardbound catalog featuring an essay by Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer of European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Parkinson is also the author of Surrealism, art and modern science (Yale University Press 2008), which served as the jumping-off point for the exhibition’s curatorial framework. On Saturday, May 16, Parkinson and cultural journalist Jeanne Carstensen presented a talk at the gallery focusing on the connections between science and the Surrealist movement.