Dracullage: the devilish game
of Exquisite Corpses.
Friday, November 22, 2013 Doors open at 7 pm, Performance starts promptly at 7:30 pm Space limited RSVP is now closed Drifting: A Theatrical Exquisite Corpse draws from the surrealist tradition
of the exquisite corpse, a collaborative exercise using words and images to construct a figure or phrase.
Games were also intrinsic to the work of war - addled Surrealists and Dadaists, the inventors
of the exquisite corpse and automatic drawing, in their quest to upend the bourgeois pretensions of art and free the artistic imagination.
Working in a method akin to the surrealist game
of the exquisite corpse, where artists continued the drawn line of a colleague, Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon exchanged drawings for one another to complete.
Not exact matches
Some are recurrently woven into the film's crazy quilt, others feature as stand - alone major panels; a few more are mere fragments, adding to the sense
of a chaotic
exquisite -
corpse story war held together by the thinnest, most tongue - in - cheek pretexts.
Should you choose to enter The Forbidden Room, you'll be stepping inside an exhilarating slipstream
of two - strip Technicolor havoc that feels like an
exquisite corpse assembled from every leftover idea that retro - silent filmmaker Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg) has ever had.
Welcome to The Forbidden Room, an exhilarating slipstream
of two - strip technicolor havoc that feels like an
exquisite corpse assembled from every leftover idea that filmmaker Guy Maddin has ever had.
The urge to resurrect (in Frankenstein fashion) the
exquisite corpses of our cinematic culture comes with the commerce - inspired instinct to reconstruct in the simulacrum
of its predecessors.
Exquisite corpse created by gallery artists on a tablecloth during the dinner celebrating the opening
of Luc Tuymans: Allo!
In the mid-19th century, a sudden cultural mix
of early photography, science à la Darwin and fantasy by way
of Lewis Carroll fueled an ironic response from certain educated Victorian ladies, whose pastimes included scrapbook diaries, parlor games (such as
exquisite corpse) and — as on vivid display at the Met — photocollaged family albums.
«Once considered a minor medium, drawing became a predominant means
of expression and innovation among surrealist artists in the first half
of the twentieth century, resulting in a rich array
of graphic techniques including automatic drawing, collage, decalcomania,
exquisite corpse, and frottage.»
2012 Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years
of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum
of Modern Art, New York, NY To be a Lady: Forty - five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue
of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum
of Modern Art, New York (2016); Surrealist: The Conjured Life, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Picasso & Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, traveled to Savannah College
of Art and Design Museum
of Art, GA, and the National Museum
of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2014); The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013);
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2011); The Spectacle
of the Everyday, and Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum
of Art, CA (2009).
Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, MoMA, New York, NY Chasm
of the Supernova, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA Without Hope, Without Fear, Mottahedan Projects, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE It's Always Summer on the Inside, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
An
exquisite corpse for four
of today's most interesting living artists.
The notion
of the Surrealists, and the
exquisite corpse was a conceptual experiment
of art making — this same concept is the beginning working premise for this exhibition.
Exquisite corpse is a playful way
of making art involving collaboration and chance.
Their work, much like the «
exquisite corpse» game itself, suggests that the bigger picture looms, but each
of us remains caught in the darkness
of our own perspective.»
untitled,
exquisite corpse: the complete paintings
of manet 213
of 556 intérieur (jeune dans un intérieur)(indoor scene (indoor scene with young woman)-RRB- 1873 formerly in stockholm, private collection, 2012 christopher williams printed matter
Like an ongoing familial game
of «
exquisite corpse,» the paintings, mixed - media, assemblage, photography, video, and installations
of brothers Rob and Christian Clayton are produced through a process
of unspoken collaboration.
One
of the online «
exquisite corpse» projects Monica Rodriguez's research as practice explores international and intergenerational struggles for Caribbean independence.
A collaborative exhibition developed between six artists using the format
of an «
exquisite corpse» game.
Scott Cowan and Paul Druecke co-author an
exquisite corpse review
of recent exhibition «The Emperor has no Clothes» at The Ski Club in Milwaukee.
Returning these
exquisite corpses from the form
of painting, where they are estranged, to the world
of the moving image where they are somehow more at home.
Xu's Eternity sculptures are a mash - up
of Hellenistic and Buddhist statuary, creating three - dimensional, transcultural
exquisite corpses.
Since 2010, Giorgio Sadotti has been assembling THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, an
exquisite corpse made from objects produced by fifty - one artist friends and acquaintances, most
of whom have had an impact on Sadotti's identity as an artist.
Alone, this composition does not amount to much: an
exquisite corpse and a field
of solar kitsch, folded into one another with the aid
of pedestrian video - effects software.
Caitlin Moore
of Mark Moore Gallery showed us a salon hanging
of fantastic
exquisite corpses by Okay Mountain.
Ray Smith will direct a live destruction
of a monumental
exquisite corpse - like sculpture.
We returned to Lynden and, for the first time, got to see the
exquisite corpses we had been making separately for eleven months on 11» by 15» pieces
of paper.
This quasi-figurative direction started with,
of all things, drawing a horse's tail for an
exquisite corpse in a performative collaboration with MacArthur award - winning saxophonist and composer Ken Vandermark and the illustrator and printmaker Dan Grzeca.
Both influences run through the exhibition's «Figure in Six Sections» (1965) a rare «
exquisite corpse» stacked sculpture in which a silver gelatin print
of the back
of a standing nude has been adhered to each
of the four sides
of an 8 1/2» tall wooden cube cut into six layers, similar in structure to a rubix cube.
Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, 1st Kiev Biennial Arsenale, Kiev, UA
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US The Mechanical Hand, Kings Place Gallery, London, UK, Newcastle University Gallery, UK Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, US
In creating a score for group tweeting, it brings together some
of the histories
of collaborative textual and artistic practice (for example, Fluxus scores, Surrealist «
exquisite corpses» and concrete poetry) with the real - time, widespread uses
of Twitter to sort information.
«Forgetting the Hand,» a new show at David Zwirner brings the contemporary artists together for a series
of «
exquisite corpse» - style drawings.
In a variation
of the «
exquisite corpse» method in which a partner is only given portions
of an otherwise concealed drawing to work on, Dzama and Pettibon developed each other's compositions through illustrations, collage, and writing.
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon began collaborating in the summer
of 2015, creating works by swapping drawings in the «
exquisite corpse» method, in which a partner is only given portions
of an otherwise concealed drawing to work on.
The Multi-Coloured Deluxe Spin Bass Guitars are an edition
of 50 and come in a specially designed, hand spun case, including a «
exquisite corpse» drawing by Hirst and Flea; a 6 x 6» framed monochrome butterfly gloss on canvas; a unique photograph
of Hirst and Flea holding the guitar and 20 specially designed plectrums.