#unica zurn

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Unica Zurn

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Untitled (1961), Unica Zürn.

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[surrealistnyc]

With each issue devoted to a single artist--Roland Topor, HR Giger, Unica Zürn, and Niklas Nenzén--Antonio Ramírez Mentes de Ácido's Óxido Lento from Spain is a fascinating endeavor. Order information below:

Hello, six months ago we published the first two issues of the fanzine Óxido Lento, focused on visionary, fantastic and surrealist art. It is a fanzine in the most classic sense, with cheap, practically artisanal editions and, of course, non-profit making. But with the ambition of presenting a selection of good images in each issue, and also accompanied by our own texts that deal with each topic in some depth.

The first was a special issue on Roland Topor, the master of black humour and absurdity. The second was on the dark universe of HR Giger.

We also published a special issue outside the collection: Desorden Orgánico, with automatic drawings of mine.

Now we are back with a second batch of fanzines.

Issue three is dedicated to Unica Zurn and her rich visual world full of magic and mystery. Her automatic drawings are an inexhaustible source of poetry. It includes a wonderful text by María Santana.

Number four is about the Swedish surrealist Niklas Nenzén, creator of delirious and strange images that assault our gaze to question and amaze us. It includes a recent interview published in English and Spanish.

If you are interested in purchasing the fanzines, we offer the following prices:

1 copy: 3 + 4 shipping costs

2 copies: 5.50 + 7 shipping costs

3 copies: 8 + 7 shipping costs

4 copies: 10.50 + 7 shipping costs

The complete collection (4 Oxido lento + Desorden orgánico): 12 + 7 shipping costs

The prices indicated are for Europe, for Spain the shipping costs are 3 euros.

If you wish, you can order it by private message, or through oxidolento@gmail.com

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Unica Zürn, drawing from her Hexentext (1954).

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The Surreal Life of Unica Zurn in Betrayal of the Mind

The Surreal Life of Unica Zurn in Betrayal of the Mind #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

[coulisses-onirisme]

Hans Bellmer dans mon top 5... Unica Zurn sa femme... Drame

Hans Bellmer. Unica Tied, 1959.

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working in a secondhand bookstore means there's always this hilarious sense of excitement and also shame whenever i order a book online

but i only ever order books i know for certain i will pretty much never see come through because they're rare or they're the kind of thing people hang on to

[cosmicanger]

Unica Zurn, zirkus 1956

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Unica Zürn, Untitled, 1965 Via: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/unica-zurn/

[coulisses-onirisme]

Hans Bellmer, dans mon top 10 des artistes

Hans Bellmer, “The Doll” (1935)

[unicazurn-archive]

"Nowadays when the object of my longings and privations approaches, when he

is suddenly present, I tend to be embarrassed, wish he would go away, may the

Devil take him — but at any rate

back to the place where until that day

my longing had tried so gently to explore it.

And this is my inner contradiction — my disbelief."

Excerpt from "The Whiteness With The Red Spot", Unica Zürn. Trans: Malcom Green.

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The grave of Hans Bellmer and Unica Zurn - Père-Lachaise cemetery

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"A princess’ skull was taken by grave-digger and colonialist German General of the Schutztruppe Ralph Zurn. He was responsible for the revolts, massacres and extermination orders against Nama and Herero peoples; digging the human remains and belongings of Namibian people to sale-export them to ethnographic museums in London, Dahlem Berlin and Dresden which are partly now part of the private ‘pharmaceutical’ (funded by Bayer) collections at the Humboldt Forum. We see maps and evidence of how the crimes were committed through psychological night visions by his daughter Unica Zurn following his ghost whilst on duty. Her torment in writing and in dadaist-termed drawings are given as evidence in the tribunal to hold accountability of the crimes committed by Germany linking to her father R. Zurn, E. Fischer and Carl Peters."

Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro: TRIBUNALS - She*- Mangrove Archives Cases for Transformational Justice

http://www.anguezomo-bikoro.com/tribunals-she-mangrove-archives.html

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Tragic story really #talent vs #mentalillness

In 1970, Unica Zurn, threw herself from the sixth floor window of their apartment in Paris. Her suicide was the culmination of thirteen years of mental crises which are described with disarming, honest lucidity in 'The Man Of Jasmine', subtitled Impressions from a Mental Illness. Zurn's mental collapse was initiated when she encountered in the real world her childhood fantasy figure "the man of jasmine": he was the writer Henri Michaux, and her meeting him plunged her into a world of hallucination in which visions of her desires, anxieties and events from her unresolved past simply overwhelmed her present life. Her return to "reality" was constantly interrupted by alternate visionary and depressive periods.

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/445155.The_Man_of_Jasmine_Other_Texts

#UnicaZürn was a German author and artist.

Zürn is remembered for her works of anagram poetry and automatic drawing and for her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer. Via Wikipedia

Born: July 6, 1916, Grunewald, Germany

Died: October 19, 1970, Paris, France

Check out Art by Women - Women in Arts #womensart for more her works!

#womensart #artbywomen #GermanArtist #GermanFemaleArtist #author #femalewriter

[laserdiscuser]

“Rainer Werner Fassbinder dedicated his 1978 film Despair “to Antonio Artaud, Vincent Van Gogh, and Unica Zurn,” and rightly so. Despair, though based on Nabokov’s novel, was in Fassbinder’s eyes about the recognition that, after a certain moment in life, the future will only offer more of what has already been, or the options of madness, misery, suicide. For many sensitive souls, the possibilities of self-reinvention are exhausted long before any sort of natural death…”

GI, ‘09