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Art Of The Day Weekly
#460 - from 16 February 2017 to 22 February 2017
Eli Lotar, Portrait of actress Wanda Vangen, 1929, silver gelatin, vintage print, 24 x 17,9 cm. Bought in 1992, collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI. © Eli Lotar.
Lotar, not only a Surrealist
PARIS – A friend of the Surrealists and the companion of Germaine Krull, Eli Lotar (1905-1969) is mostly known for his surprising images of the slaughterhouses of la Villette. But his diverse talent goes way beyond that talent. From Rumanian origin, he settled in Paris, was the assistant of Buñuel in an unforgettable documentary (Tierra sin pan), a columnist on technical breakthroughs (locomotives and polders in the Netherlands), a friend and collaborator of Antonin Artaud for whom he produced photomontages for the stage, and even an observer of social misery in his remarkable movie dedicated to Aubervilliers in 1945.
• Eli Lotar at the Jeu de paume, from 14 February to 28 May 2017