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Romanian authorities arrest three men involved in Rotterdam museum art heist He who attested to himself a virginity complex in the face of empty canvases went always in search of means that would allow him to augment the hallucinatory capacities of his mind, so that visions would arise automatically in order to rid him of his blindness. Under these aspects, the exhibition positions Max Ernsts uvre between references to the past, contemporary political events, and a prophetic and visionary perspective of the future. Remembrance, discovery, recycling, and collage were the combined motor that drove him in his work. A misunderstood and revolting artist, he had moved from Cologne to Paris in 1922, where he joined the circle of the Surrealists he was detained as hostile alien twice, attempted to get away, and was released thanks to lucky coincidences. Torn between the realization of his personal aims in life and the social and political obstacles during a turbulent period, he nevertheless always looked ahead: a flight into the future. Max Ernst was a restless personality who always strove for freedom. Yet what remains a constant is his consistence in terms of contradiction. His inventiveness when it comes to handling pictorial and inspirational techniques, the breaks between his countless work phases, and his switching back and forth between themes cause irritation. An early protagonist of Dadaism, a pioneer of Surrealism, and the inventor of such sophisticated techniques as collage, frottage, grattage, decalcomania, and oscillation, he withdraws his work from catchy definition. Together with Matisse, Picasso, Beckmann, Kandinsky, and Warhol, Max Ernst no doubt numbers among the leading figures of 20th-century art history. Presenting a selection of 180 paintings, collages, and sculptures, as well as relevant examples of illustrated books and documents, the exhibition will assemble works related to all of the artists periods, discoveries, and techniques, thereby introducing his life and uvre within a both biographic and historical context. VIENNA.- The Albertina devotes an exhibition his first retrospective in Austria to Max Ernst, the great pictorial inventor.
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