Date & Time: Thursday, January 13 2005 - Saturday, April 16 2005
9:00 PM
Location: UBU GALLERY
416 East 59th Street
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More Info: 212 753 4444
www.ubugallery.com/phpwcms/ IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK...or are VISITING....
Don't miss this rare opportunity to SEE a Unica Zurn exhibit!

I promise to be jealous of you!!

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UNICA ZURN: Drawings from the 1960s

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Ubu Gallery presents an exhibition of works by the tormented and visionary Unica Zurn. Born in Berlin on July 6, 1916, Zurn grew up surrounded by exotic, ephemeral objects collected by her father, a cavalry officer stationed in Africa. Inspired perhaps in part by her father's gifts from afar and a longing for greater contact with him, Zurn developed a rich fantasy life and a vivid imagination. This is evidenced in her dense, otherworldly drawings of fantastical creatures meticulously constructed out of finely rendered, obsessively repetitive shapes and lines. Already an accomplished author, Zurn produced most of her oeuvre during the 1950s and 60s while involved with the German Surrealist, Hans Bellmer. With Bellmer's encouragement, Zurn began to experiment with & "automatic" drawings and anagrams, natural extensions of her established interest in hidden meanings and coincidences. Most of the drawings in the exhibition were made during the 1960s - an intensely productive period for Zurn - though one marked by her deteriorating mental health and the unraveling of her relationship with Bellmer. On October 19, 1970, Zurn leapt to her death from the balcony of the Paris apartment she had shared with Bellmer. Upon his death in 1975, Bellmer was buried, at his request, next to Zurn in a Paris Cemetery. Their grave is marked with the words Bellmer wrote for Zurns funeral wreath nearly five years before: "My love will follow you into Eternity".