Catalog of an exhibition at Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano from February 12-May 28, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199)
Contents:
Essential Bibliography. Christoph Bürgi -- 'le plâtre m'a suivi jusqu'ici...": Meret Oppenheim and Alberto Giacometti / Martina Corgnati -- Ça continue: Meret Oppenheim and Marcel Duchamp / Heike Eipeldauer -- Man Ray and the Érotique Voilée / Josef Helfenstein -- Tell Me What Shoes You Wear and I'll Tell You Who You Are / Maria Giuseppina Di Monte -- Surrealism without the Surrealists: Feminism and Marginalization in Meret Oppenheim's Major Works / Daniel Spanke -- "Men are a species just as bizarre as women and, like them, caricatures of what they could be." (Meret Oppenheim / Bice Cuiger -- Meret Oppenheim and Ticino - One Hundred Years of Affectionate Presence / Lisa Wenger -- Pond in a Park / Dominique Bürgi -- Memories of Meret Oppenheim / Christoph Bürgi -- Dadaist and Surrealist Reflections -- Invitation to Breakfast -- Body and Matter -- DReams and Archetypes -- Creatures of Nature -- Between Heaven and Earth -- Self-portraits, Friends, Portraits -- Masks -- Biography -- Essential Bibliography.
Summary:
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana presents the exhibition 'Works in dialogue from Max Ernst to Mona Hatoum', dedicated to one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, shown here alongside major exponents of the Dada and Surrealist movements as well figures of importance on the contemporary art scene. The works exhibited reveal the close-knit relationships between Meret and the older and often already established artists of that day and age; most importantly, however, they underscore the independence of this artist, who was close to Surrealism not because she wished to emulate it, but because she saw in Breton's movement the expression of a sensibility that was similar to her own:'It is not I who looked for the Surrealists, it is they who found me'. The exhibition thus releases Meret Oppenheim from the image of muse and model that has often unfairly obscured her work in the past.
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