Unica Zürn: Dark Spring (2009)

“Unica Zürn: Dark Spring presents ink and watercolor works on paper by the late German artist and writer Unica Zürn, spanning from the early 1950s until her suicide in 1970. A noted poet and novelist, Zürn produced numerous expressionistic short stories that were published in German newspapers throughout the 1950s before moving to Paris with German Surrealist artist, Hans Bellmer, who would be her partner and collaborator until her death. Zürn began producing paintings and drawings related to her Surrealist-influenced literary work while living in Paris, becoming acquainted with many artists in the Surrealist circle, including André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp. Part whimsical cartoons, part intricate portraits, Zürn’s chimerical fantasies make for drawings that are deeply revelatory yet playfully imaginative.”

Essays by João Ribas and Mary Ann Caws
Publisher The Drawing Center, New York, 2009
Drawing Papers series, 86
ISBN 9780942324396
93 pages

Exhibition review (Gary Indiana, Art in America, 2009)

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