Exquisite Corpse, a sequel to the exhibition presented under the same name at the Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois in 2003, presents a body of work inspired by the famous game invented in Paris in 1925, in a house on the rue du Château where Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert, Yves Tanguy, and many others, famous and unknown, would regularly meet. For them, the game was a way to explore the operation of thought beyond the control of reason, and it became a canonical device in the Surrealist toolbox.
This exhibition offers fifteen surreal ‘exquisite corpses’ by such artists as André Breton, Paul Eluard, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Yves Tanguy alongside a selection of other works by contemporary artists embodying the same free and transgressive spirit. Among these works is Le Château de Gilles de Rais (The Castle of Gilles de Rais), a shooting painting created by Niki de Saint Phalle in 1962.
The exhibition, which opened on 22 March and runs through 11 May 2013, is on display at the Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois, 36, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris. For more information, call the gallery at +33 (0)1 46 34 61 07.
Exhibition view, “Exquisite Corpse”
Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
22.03.2013 — 11.05.2013
© Aurélien Mole
Courtesy Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris