[BCMA] Man Ray Exhibit Opens at MOA

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University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology Media Release


 

 

 

 

 


 

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Carl

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Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
at the Museum of Anthropology

 


 

 

 


 

Opening Reception, Friday, October 29, 7 pm (everyone welcome) Exhibition on
view October 30, 2010 – January 23, 2011 in The Audain Gallery. 

MOA is excited to announce the opening of a major new exhibition featuring
works by surrealist master May Ray and his contemporaries.

Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens brings to light photographs of
African objects by American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) produced over a
period of almost twenty years. In addition to providing fresh insight into
Man Ray’s photographic practice, the exhibition raises questions concerning
the representation, reception, and perception of African art as mediated by
the camera lens. 

Featured are more than 50 photographs by Man Ray from the 1920s and 1930s
alongside approximately 50 photographs by his international avant-garde
contemporaries such as Charles Sheeler, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, and
André Kertész. A full-color catalogue, written and edited by Curator Dr.
Wendy Grossman, may be purchased in MOA's Shop.

A rich and varied array of programming accompanies the show, reflecting the
vibrant times in which Man Ray lived: the music, the art, the poetry, and
the cinema. See www.moa.ubc.ca/events for a full schedule of talks, tours,
jazz and experimental music concerts, spoken word performances, and film
screenings.

Alongside the exhibition, MOA's is pleased to be screening several short
films - each a model of invention and subversion - selected by Colin Browne,
SFU School of Contemporary Arts. Like a number of artists associated with
Dadaism and Surrealism in the 1920s and 1930s, Man Ray experimented with
motion pictures and participated in the outrageous films made by his friends
and colleagues, whose interest in cinema was to see how the medium might
help advance their own artistic and philosophical strategies.

The films include Man Ray, Le retour à la raison, 1923; Fernand Léger &
Dudley Murphy, Ballet Mécanique, 1924; Francis Picabia & René Clair,
Entr’acte, 1924; Marcel Duchamp, Anémic cinema, 1926; Man Ray, Emak-Bakia,
1927; Man Ray, L’étoile de mer, 1928; and Man Ray, Les mystères du château
de Dé, 1929.

 

Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens was curated by Wendy Grossman,
Ph.D and organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. The
exhibition was funded in part by grants from the Terra Foundation for
American Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dedalus
Foundation. Media sponsor The Georgia Straight. Director’s Reception
sponsored by Consulat Général de France à Vancouver.

Note: photography is not permitted in the exhibition.

Images: (top right), Man Ray, Noire et blanche, 1926, c Man Ray Trust/SOCRAC
(2010); (left, from top) Man Ray, Untitled (Aqua'ba figure, Akan), 1933, c
Man Ray Trust/SOCRAC (2010); Carl Van Vechten, Feral Benga, 1937 c Carl Van
Vechten Trust; Erwin Blumenfeld, Sculpted head from Sudan, 1936, courtesy
Deborah Bell Photographs, NY, c The Children of Erwin Blumenfeld; Man Ray,
Untitled (Bamileke figure, njuindem, "Bangwa Queen," Bangwa Kingdom,
Cameroon), ca 1934 c Man Ray Trust/SOCRAC (2010);

 


 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

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