Man Ray

Many new artistic forms rest on the experiments of Man Ray which, after beginnings of draughtsmen advertising executive in New York, works since 1916 with Marcel Duchamp and will become one of the representatives of Dadaïste and surrealism.

For this reason it appears in this heading because it is regarded as the second inventor of the frame and that its work comprises many photomontage and joining (Boardwalk).

One can say that its work is the sensual expression poético thought of Marcel Duchamp. May Ray describes the invention of the frame like an action “automatic” unconscious, accomplished in darkroom, which connects its with the automatic writing of his/her surrealist colleagues Breton and Soupault. Its frames show completely ordinary, but transformed objects of appearance “so curious to observe to observe. He called already this photographic work of the rayographes.

Between 1920 and 1930, Man Ray makes party of the artists which presents a new type of photographs. The technical innovation leaves to the photographers a great freedom which the various artistic and literary currents irrigate. The photomontage open new ways, testify to the boiling and the abundance of research.

Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a painter German (or Franco-German for some) of mobility hobby-horse, surrealist then pataphysic. Max Ernst was born in Brühl, in Germany. In 1909, it starts to study philosophy at the university of Bonn, but it quickly gives up the courses to be devoted to its interest for art. In 1913, it meets Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and share for Paris, joining in Montparnasse of the artists coming from the four corners of the sphere. In 1918, it wife Shines Straus, historian of art. Their tumultuous relation will not hold. The following year, it returns visit to Paul Klee and creates his first paintings, impressions with the hand and joinings; it tries out various supports and materials. During the First World War, it is useful in the German army. After this one, filled of new ideas, it melts with Jean Arp and the social activist Alfred Grunwald the hobby-horse group of Cologne but two years later, in 1922, it turns over to the community of artists of Montparnasse to Paris. Testing constantly, he invents in 1925 the friction where he lets run a lead of pencil to paper on a sheet posed on an unspecified surface (parquet floor or another texture). This technique reveals more or less imaginary figures. It is connected with the automatic writing of the surrealist writers whom it côtoyait like Paul Eluard and André Breton of course. The following year, it collaborates with Joan Miro on the designs for Sergei Diaghilev. With the assistance of Miro, max Ernst launches out in the development of a new technique, scraping where it scrapes the pigment of the fabric. In addition to



The collages of Max Ernst rubbings after the World article Philippe Dagen

Max Ernst in 1925 invented "frottage" where he scribbles with a pencil and paper on a sheet placed on any surfaces (parquet or other texture). It shows figures more or less imaginary. It is not without similitide with automatic writing surrealist writers like knowing that Paul Eluard and Andre Breton. With the help of other artist, Max Ernst engages in the development of a new technique, scratching where it scrapes the pigment of the canvas.

Ay castle near Piacenza, in 1933, Max Ernst in Italy for three weeks, in a castle near Piacenza, it assembles 182 collages,

The french illustrated plates from the late nineteenth century black and white are for him as a subject inexhaustible. Iil in preparing the publication of five volumes, published from April to September 1934 editions of the gallery Jeanne Bucher.
The title of this graphic novel is A week of goodness or seven elements capital.

It is divided into days of the week, each characterized by a passion and a different element - water, air. The most bizarre dreamlike give them free rein, through symbols.


'A week of kindness is one of the major creations of surrealism. But the consultation of the original collages, it is capable of measuring the degree of control that Ernst at the art installation. They were exposed in 1936, in Madrid, at the initiative of Paul Eluard. They are finally again at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, loaned by Isidore Ducasse Foundation of New York, which houses the collection of Daniel Filipacchi. Exhaustive, introducing even a few collages that has not accepted for publication, the exhibition is a model of its kind. It opens with a sequence that leaves explanatory dreamer. The collages are presented in the company boards in which Ernst cut a naked woman, a shipwrecked, a riverside or bourgeois interior. The subtlety with which he agency images, to slide into each other and the suture is such that the eye perceives a perfect unity where there heterogeneity. Hybridization, the overthrow upside down, the breaking of scale imperceptible raise scenes where the unreal seem natural. Ernst makes the fantastic not only credible but normal.

This world in black and white live in fear and rage. The disasters are frequent, crimes too. The murderers have heads beasts and birds. The heroines are alternately threatening and overwhelmed - and mostly barren. This column fantasies and anxieties fascinates so, leaving rooms, we are all surprised that men should have the lion mufles and that Viennoises did not walk naked.

At present Exhibition Max Ernst to the Orsay Museum from June 30th till September 13th, 2009

Max Ernst, Albertina, Albertina Platz 1, Vienna. Tel.: 00-43 - (0) 1-534830. From 10 am to 18 pm; Wednesday up to 21 hours. Until April 27. € 9.50 .
Philippe Dagen

Numeric device

Numeric device

It is about a grid where are placed the shots of photos settled on graves of dead persons.
These images make share some seconds with these dead strangers quite a lot of time ago and a little forgotten. The past to look at these photos is deducted and carried(worn) in the knowledge of the regardeur.
It is a number of seconds which you passed with the photo of these strangers.
The past between the recording and the moment when you see photos is also deducted.

It is a time of the photography.