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November 30, 2007 12:23 pm
One of the most absurd things about surrealism and Dada is that they’ve retained their strength while the social, political, and intellectual ideas that engendered them have became obsolete. We might live in a postmodern era, but some of our hippest artists are busily wrangling with modernism’s signature art movements. In “Ballet Mécanique,” Emma Dexter, the new director of exhibitions at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London and formerly senior curator at the Tate, has gathered work by 16 figures whose art moves modernism into the postmodern age. The show is named after Fernand Léger’s 1924 lyrical Dadaist film, and includes work by Léger and rare pieces by modernist masters Oskar Schlemmer and Robert Delaunay, along with art in all media by their young disciples. And there can be little doubt that the historic artists would be proud to see Thomas Zipp’s witty revival of surrealist references, Jan Albers’ trompe l’oeil portraits, and Hansjörg Dobliar’s fresh, lively, colorful Constructivist drawings. For more information on the show, see www.timothytaylorgallery.com.
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