New York; visit Blain/Di Donna gallery;DADA & surrealist objects
by Venetia Kapernekas
New York; an amazing exhibition at Blain/Di Donna gallery .. visit on november 21,2013
“……The exhibition presents a retrospective overview of all aspects of this subject, and encompasses a full selection of works by every serious creator of objects from both the Dada and Surrealist groups. Chronologically, this exploration begins with Marcel Duchamp, whose invention of the readymade in 1913 gave birth to the separation of foundor handmade objects from the more limited world of sculpture, usually confined to plaster, bronze, marble and occasionally carved wood that had previously represented, exclusively, in the realm of the third dimension in art..”
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