Art Of The Day Weekly

#481 - from 13 July 2017 to 13 September 2017


Yüksel Arslan, Arture 385, L'Homme XXVI, Hallucinations, 1988. Mixed mediae, 34 x 27,5 cm. Collection Arslan. Photo : Cengiz Tacer. © Yüksel Arslan, 2017.

Breton, the boss

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ – We continue to regret the breaking up of the André Breton collection, and its ensuing sale that created a lot of noise in 2003 in Paris. We all know the boss of surrealism was a curious, and unrepentant character, who brought together Kachina dolls, art brut and natural curiosities in his cabinet of curiosities. The museum brings together some of the artists for which he had a particular weakness, from Aloïse to Victor Brauner, from Augustin Lesage to André Masson. Separately, a room is dedicated to Yüksel Arslan, a Turkish artist born in 1933, and who Breton invited to take part in his exhibition E.R.O.S in 1959 –which had no success- , and who settled in France in 1961 to produce surprising and intelligent work, of which the drawings fill dozens of notebooks of a never-ending diary.
André Breton et l’art magique at LaM, from 24 June to 15 October 2017. Catalogue €9.

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