Man Ray and Max Dupain exhibition opens at Heide Museum

Two titans of Twentieth-century images, Man Ray and Max Dupain, are the topics of a landmark new exhibition on the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.

Running till 9 November, Man Ray and Max Dupain is the primary main Australian present to put the influential artists aspect by aspect.

Under the curation of Man Ray historian Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais and Heide’s Artistic Director Lesley Harding, the exhibition  attracts a parallel between their distinct but intersecting visions.

Across greater than 200 images, the present traces their shared engagement with Surrealism – from dreamlike nudes and uncanny nonetheless lifes, to pioneering work in style and promoting.

The exhibition additionally illuminates the inventive ecosystems that surrounded each males, that includes pivotal works by their respective companions, the celebrated photographers Lee Miller (not too long ago exhibited at Heide Museum) and Olive Cotton. 

At the center of the exhibition lies the profound affect Man Ray had on Max Dupain – a inventive change that marked a turning level in Australian photographic historical past.

A seminal determine in Dada and Surrealism, Man Ray revolutionised the medium by way of radical experimentation, from his hauntingly lovely solarisations to the dreamlike abstraction of his ‘rayographs’ – camera-less photos that defied conference and dissolved the road between actuality and creativeness.

It was by way of the pages of Photographs by Man Ray 1920–1934 that Dupain encountered this daring new imaginative and prescient.

Inspired, he broke away from the soft-focus romanticism of Pictorialism and started embracing modernist strategies.

This creative pivot would go on to form not solely his inventive output but additionally his industrial apply, ushering in a brand new visible language that continues to resonate inside Australian images.

Accompanying the exhibition is a richly illustrated catalogue that includes essays by curators Lesley Harding and Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais alongside texts by Tamara Abramovitch, Judy Annear, Lana De Lorenzi, Helen Ennis, Shaune Lakin, Gael Newton, Antony Penrose and Susan van Wyk.

Man Ray and Max Dupain gives Australian audiences a dialogue between two photographic visionaries – artists separated by geography however united of their radical reimagining of the medium.

The exhibition explores how every, in their very own context, pushed the boundaries of image-making and redefined the position of images in fashionable artwork.

The exhibition can also be supported by quite a lot of public program occasions together with:

Art Talk: Man Ray and Max Dupain
Saturday 9 August, 11am

Art by Twilight: Surrealist Saturday
Saturday 13 September, 5 – 8pm

You can discover out extra concerning the exhibition and opening hours on the Heide Museum of Modern Art website.

Heide Museum is located on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River at 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, 9km from Melbourne CBD.