SHARE:  

Galerie Anaïs
EXHIBITION
ANNOUNCEMENT





Hans Bellmer, "Les Fleurs du Mal," Drypoint, 1967, 38 x 56 cm

Hans Bellmer
The Songs of Maldoror and Erotic Series


Extended through March 31, 2011




Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., D-2
Santa Monica, California 90404


Contact: Anna Meliksetian
Phone:
(310) 449-4433
Fax: (310) 449-4418
Email: info@galerieanaisla.com
Website: www.galerieanaisla.com
Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-6pm.




Link to Leah Ollman's LA Times Review
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/02/art-review-hans-bellmer-at-anais.html

Link to David Cotner's LA Weekly Review
http://laweekly.com/events/hans-bellmer-1204065/

Galerie Anais
is pleased to present original etchings by Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from The Songs of Maldoror and the erotic series. Although most acclaimed for the life size female dolls he produced and photographed, Bellmer was a master engraver. This exquisite series of original copper etchings reveals Bellmer’s remarkable draftsmanship as he continued to create erotic dream images using delicate, fluid line. Published by Pierre Argillet between 1967 and 1971, this body of work is on view exclusively at Galerie Anais in the U.S.


Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror), a poetic novel written by Le Comte de Lautremont between 1868 and 1869, was discovered by the Surrealists who claimed it as a precursor to their movement. Many Surrealist artists including Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst cited the novel as a major inspiration to their own work. Andre Breton discovered a phrase from The Songs of Maldoror that would come to represent the Surrealist doctrine of objective chance: “as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.” Despite all these influences on many of his contemporaries, Bellmer’s series is one of the few that references the novel directly.

 



Hans Bellmer, Fusion, Drypoint, 1967, 38 x 56 cm




Hans Bellmer, Meditation, Drypoint, 1967, 38 x 56 cm
 

Hans Bellmer, The Garter, Drypoint, 1967, 38 x 56 cm