Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition

'Her wide-ranging oeuvre, which spans geometric abstract paintings to jewelry designs, is illustrated in this new catalogue. The standouts remain the Surrealist objects that showcase Oppenheim’s signature wit and humor, but essays by the show’s three curators also draw out other aspects of her work' - Art News

How the celebrated Surrealist traversed the many movements of 20th-century art 

Over the course of her protean career, Meret Oppenheim produced witty, unconventional bodies of work that defy neat categorizations of medium, style and subject matter. “Nobody will give you freedom,” she stated in 1975, “you have to take it.” Her freewheeling, subversively humorous approach modeled a dynamic artistic practice in constant flux, yet held together by the singularity and force of her creative vision.

Published in conjunction with the first ever major transatlantic Meret Oppenheim retrospective, and the first in the United States in over 25 years, this publication surveys work from the radically open Swiss artist’s precocious debut in 1930s Paris, the period during which her notorious fur-lined Object in MoMA’s collection was made, through her post–World War II artistic development, which included engagements with international Pop, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual art, and up to her death in 1985. Essays by curators from the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Modern Art critically examine the artist’s wide-ranging, wildly imaginative body of work, and her active role in shaping the narrative of her life and art, providing the context for her creative production pre– and post–World War II.

Details

• Authors: Nina Zimmer, Director of the Kunstmuseum Bern; Natalie Dûpercher,  Assistant Curator of Modern Art at The Menil Collection, and Anne Umland,  The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.
• Hardcover: 184 pages | 250 illustrations
• Date published: October 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781633451292
• Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 23.8cm