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WOLFGANG PAALEN
Scenes for a Sorcerer, Sep 23 - Dec 15, 2023

WOLFGANG PAALEN: Scenes for a Sorcerer

Past exhibition
Wolfgang Paalen, Le genie de l´espèce, 1938 (2017)

Wolfgang Paalen Austrian, 1905-1959

Le genie de l´espèce, 1938 (2017)
Poultry and mammal bones, brass, velvet
mounted in black wooden box with glass lid
23 x 38 cm (animal bones)
30,9 x 41,7 x 6,5 cm (wooden case)
Authentic replica after the original (Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City), edited by the Wolfgang Paalen Society e.V. in a limited edition of 8 copies and one proof copy. Paalen Archiv No. 38.27 b, Edition No. 4/8
WP0074

Exhibitions

(replica only)
Museum der Moderne/Rupertinum, Salzburg (Resonance of Exile), 2018
National Gallery Berlin (Hello World), 2018
Lower Belvedere Vienna (Wolfgang Paalen, The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico), 2019
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (Objects of Desire), 2019
Caixa Forum, Barcelona (Objetos de deseo), 2020 (this exhibition travelled to Caixa
Forum Madrid 2020, Sevilla 2021, Girona 2021 Zaragoza 2022 and Museo Centro Gaiàs, Santiago de Compostela, 1922.
Design Museum, London (Objects of Desire), 2022/23

Literature

Udo Kittelmann, Gabriele Knappstein (ed.), Hello World – Revision einer Sammlung, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie Berlin 2018, p. 409 (ill.col.)
Stella Rollig, Andreas Neufert, Franz Smola (Hrsg.), Wolfgang Paalen – Der Österreichische Surrealist in Berlin und Mexiko, Wien (Koenig Books) 2019, p. 138 (ill.col) Stella Rollig, Andreas Neufert, Franz Smola (Ed.), Wolfgang Paalen – The Austrian Surrealist in Berlin and Mexico, Vienna (Koenig Books) 2019, p. 138 (ill.col.)
Mateo Kries, Tanja Cunz (Hrsg.), Objekte der Begierde – Surrealismus und Design 1924-Heute, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein und Caixa Forum Barcelona 2019-2020, p. 204 No. 184 (ill.col.)
Désirée Schellerer, Monika Voglgruber (Hrsg.), Belvedere Kunstmagazin No. 2, Wien 2019, p. 4 (ill.col.)
Thorsten Sadowsky (Hrsg.), Orte des Exils/Scenes of Exile, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra) 2020, p. 167 (ill.col.)
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