#unica zürn

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Retrato de Unica Zürn (Berlín 1916 - París 1970) intervenida por Rocío Bueno para su serie Ancestras.

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Artwork found in "Solfège", (early 1960s), Unica Zürn.

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“It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a morning more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now?” ― Unica Zürn

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Despair (1978) de Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Unica Zürn, La Serpenta, 1957

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Unica Zürn, Untitled, 1965, Ink and gouache on paper, 65 x 50 cm, Courtesy Ubu Gallery, New York & Galerie Berinson, Berlin

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Hans Bellmer, Unica Zürn & the doll c. 1960

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Ha aparecido la suma de dígitos de todos los rostros con los que he vivido. ¡Ese rostro existe! Por fin lo he visto y lo he entendido del todo. En uno está la huella del sueño y los ojos, en la palma de la mano y en el andar se refleja la sensación de vértigo –en mi hijo– en el otro, boca y mentón y la magrez de los hombros –en mi hija–. Pero solamente son dos, solo dos de tantas piedrecitas que forman la imagen. ¿Durante cuánto tiempo? Mientras sea capaz de pensar. ¿De dónde ha salido mi infelicidad? De mezclar rostros con ese único rostro. Puesto que mi infancia se detuvo en el momento en que entendí el drama de mis padres, ¿se rompió también el milagroso instinto que percibe el rostro único?

—Unica Zürn, «Notas de una anémica» en El hombre del jazmín y otros textos. Traducción de Núria Molines Galarza.

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After three ways in the rain image

when waking your counterimage: he,

the magician. Angels weave you in

the dragonbody. Rings in the way,

long in the rain I become yours.

Unica Zürn, Will I Meet You Sometime?

trans. Pierre Joris

Ermenonville 1959

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Untitled (circa 1960), Unica Zürn.

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Unica Zürn

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I went to the Judy Chicago retrospective at the New Museum today and really loved the way she/the curators included a kind of mini overview of works by female geniuses throughout history as part of it. These are just a few--I was so excited to see a piece by Unica Zürn in person!

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Emma Kunz, Work No. 003, no date (circa 1940) Ithell Colquhoun, Alcove, 1946 Unica Zürn, La Serpenta, 1957 Georgiana Houghton, The Spiritual Crown of Annie Mary Howitt Watts, 1867 Hilma af Klint, Group IX/UW, The Dove, no. 2, 1915

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Unica Zürn, Untitled, 1957

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unica zürn, german writer and artist