Joseph Cornell and Surrealism in New York
The exhibition focuses on the work of Cornell, the American pioneer of collage, montage, and assemblage art, in the decades of the 1930s and the 1940s.
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Joseph Cornell, "Untitled (Tilly Losch)," 1935. Private collection, © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / SIAE. |
Museum of Fine Arts – Lyon
20 place des Terreaux
F-69001 Lyon
October 18, 2013–February 10, 2014
Curators:
Sylvie Ramond, conservateur en chef du patrimoine, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Matthew Affron, Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The exhibition Joseph Cornell and Surrealism in New York focuses on the work of Cornell, the American pioneer of collage, montage, and assemblage art, in the decades of the 1930s and the 1940s. These years span both Cornell's emergence and maturation as an artist and the heyday of surrealism in the United States. Surrealism launched Cornell as an exhibiting artist. It was also the cultural milieu that shaped and molded him through the first half of his career. The exhibition presents key works by Cornell as well as images by other major artists, such as Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Man Ray, to evoke that surrealist environment in New York and to trace Cornell's course through it. This will be the first exhibition focusing on Cornell to be hosted by a French museum since the touring exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art in New York visited the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1981.
