Curated by Claudia Rousseau, PhD
January 25-March 15, 2020
The title of this exhibition is borrowed from that of a book written in 1932 by Surrealist poet André Breton (1896-1966), who in turn had borrowed it from a scientific experiment of the same name. The experiment shows that in two vessels joined by a tube, a gas or liquid passing from one to the other rises to the same level, whatever the shape of the vessel. For Breton, the phrase refers to the artist, whether literary or visual, whose work results from communication between the inner life of the mind, emotions and dreams, and the waking perception of the exterior world. The three artists in this exhibition all work from this premise, although with individual styles and imagery. While their work shows continuity with Surrealist ideas of the 1930s and 40s, it also relates to the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s and 70s, reflecting the prevalence of surrealist imagery in contemporary visual art.
A catalog with essay by curator Claudia Rousseau will be published in conjunction with this exhibition.
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- 2020_DC_KatzenX_2020A_Landscape: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Exhibit: Landscape in an Eroded Field (26 photos from 2020)
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- 2020_DC_KatzenXT_BGMuhn_200215: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Gallery Talk: B.G. Muhn ("North Korean Art - The Enigmatic World of Chosonhwa" book talk) (88 photos from 2020)
- 2020_DC_KatzenXT_Loren_200124: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Gallery Talk: Luis Lorenzana (28 photos from 2020)
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