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De Tranen Van Eros Moesman, Surrealisme En De Seksen the Tears of Eros Moesman, Surrealism and the Sexes De tranen van Eros Moesman, surrealisme en de seksen The Tears of Eros Moesman, Surrealism and the Sexes 15 februari - 24 mei 2020 15 February - 24 May 2020 DE TRANEN VAN EROS MOESMAN, SURREALISME EN DE SEKSEN The Tears of Eros Moesman, Surrealism and the Sexes De Refter | Entrance Hall De Refter 3 De tranen van Eros | The Tears o f Eros Entrance Hall Zaal 1 | Room 1 7 Onderzoek naar seksualiteit | Exploration of Sexuality Entresol 1 17 Moesman en Utrecht | Moesman and Utrecht Zaal 2 | Room 2 23 De vrouw als fetisj | Woman as Fetish Tussenhal | Transit Hall 39 Paul Kooiker + Viviane Sassen Zaal 3 | Room 3 43 De Vrouwen van het Surrealisme | The Women of Surrealism Entresol 2 67 Kunstliefde | Kunstliefde (Love of Art) Zaal 4 | Room 4 71 De cult van de hemelse Markies | The Cult of the Divine Marquis De Annex 89 Jon Rafman - Dream Journal 92 Colofon | Colophon 3 De tranen van Eros The Tears of Eros Moesman, Moesman, surrealisme en Surrealism de seksen and the Sexes Hoofdpersoon van De tranen van Eros is de Utrechtse The main character in The Tears of Eros is the Utrecht- kunstenaar Joop Moesman (1909-1988), de enige born artist Joop Moesman (1909-1988), the only officially officieel erkende surrealist van Nederland. Hij was een recognised Dutch Surrealist. He was a controversial artist, tegendraadse kunstenaar die met zijn seksueel geladen whose sexually charged paintings often caused a scandal. schilderijen regelmatig een schandaal veroorzaakte. In deze In this exhibition, we present his oeuvre in the context of his tentoonstelling presenteren wij het oeuvre van Moesman in international Surrealist contemporaries. de context van zijn internationale surrealistische tijdgenoten. Surrealism is known as a movement of male artists, in which Het surrealisme staat bekend als een beweging van women were primarily assigned the role of muse. Their mannelijke kunstenaars. Vrouwen kregen vooral de rol bodies became objects for the Surrealists’ sexual and often van muze toebedeeld. Hun lichaam werd een object violent fantasies. Moesman’s art is exemplary in this respect. voor de seksuele en vaak gewelddadige fantasieën Few of the women in his paintings have an identity: their faces van de surrealisten. Moesmans kunst is wat dat betreft are omitted, masked and, in one case, even stripped of flesh. exemplarisch. De vrouwen in zijn doeken hebben zelden een identiteit; hun gezicht is weggelaten, gemaskeerd en een Moesman’s work is still unsettling today. That is why in The enkele keer zelfs ontvleesd. Tears of Eros we deliberately dive into the Surrealist world of sex, gender, fetishism and taboos. For this reason, we are In de wereld van vandaag is het werk van Moesman nog also showing – for the first time in the Netherlands – many steeds ontregelend. Daarom duiken we in De tranen van works by female Surrealists. How did they view these themes? Eros doelbewust in de surrealistische wereld van seks en And how did they depict their own identity and sexuality? de seksen, van fetisjisme en taboes. Om die reden ook tonen we – voor het eerst in Nederland – veel kunstwerken van vrouwelijke surrealisten. Hoe keken zij aan tegen deze 3 VG Bildkunst, Bonn, 2020. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln thema’s? En hoe verbeeldden zij hun eigen identiteit en seksualiteit? 4 De refter Entrance Hall 5 1 4 create a ‘wonderful moment’, similar to what Anna Aagaard Jensen Jacoba Haas the surrealists called ‘le merveilleux’: the Zaal 1 miraculous. The theme of his new work is love. Denemarken 1991 Amsterdam 1946 – Amsterdam 2018 Unlike the Surrealists’ radical, taboo-breaking A Basic Instinct 2018 Het laatste avondmaal vision of love and eroticism, Kooijmans opts Room 1 polystyreen, polyuretheen schuim, talkpoeder, The Last Supper 1994 for a softer approach. His images are intimate acryloplossing, glasvezel, pigment (make-up), lak olieverf op doek | oil on canvas and personal, an ode to the lover’s gaze. polystyrene, polyurethane foam, talcum powder, acrylic bruikleen | on loan Van Soest Collection solution, fiberglass, pigment (make-up), varnish aankoop | purchase 2019 inv. nr. | inv. no. 34944 Dit groepsportret kan worden beschouwd als de Nederlandse tegenhanger van Ernsts Au 2 rendez-vous des amis. Ditmaal is de enige vrouw in het gezelschap de kunstenares Anna Aagaard Jensen zelf, Jacoba Haas. Als een zelfverklaarde Denemarken 1991 muze poseert ze te midden van een groep Lady Marina 2018 Nederlandse surrealisten. Geportretteerd polystyreen, polyuretheen schuim, talkpoeder, zijn onder andere de kunstenaar Willem acryloplossing, glasvezel, pigment (make-up), lak Wagenaar, met wie ze jarenlang samenleefde, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, talcum powder, acrylic de schilder Louis Wijmans, filmer en solution, fiberglass, pigment (make-up), varnish fotograaf Emiel van Moerkerken, dichter Louis bruikleen particuliere collectie| on loan private collection, Lehmann, surrealismekenner en publicist Her Amsterdam de Vries, schrijver Willem Frederik Hermans en – in het blauw want destijds al overleden – Joop Moesman. Op deze stoelen mogen alleen vrouwen plaatsnemen. Ze nodigen vrouwen uit om This group portrait can be seen as the Dutch alle ruimte in te nemen die ze willen, zoals counterpart to Ernst’s A Friends’ Reunion. This mannen doorgaans uit zichzelf doen – het time the only woman in the group is the artist zogenaamde ‘manspreading’. herself, Jacoba Haas. As a self-proclaimed muse, she poses with a group of Dutch Only women are allowed to sit on these chairs. Surrealists. They include the artist Willem They invite women to take up all the space Wagenaar, with whom she lived for years, the they want, as men usually do: the so-called painter Louis Wijmans, the filmmaker and ‘man-spreading’. photographer Emiel van Moerkerken, the poet Louis Lehmann, the expert on Surrealism Her 3 de Vries, writer Willem Frederik Hermans, and Max Ernst – in blue because he was already dead – Joop Brühl 1891 – Parijs 1976 Moesman. Au rendez-vous des amis (reproductie) A Friends’ Reunion (reproduction) 1922 5 foto | photo Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln Jeroen Kooijmans beeldrecht | copyright VG Bildkunst, Bonn Schijndel 1967 origineel in collectie | original in collection Museum De roeier | The Rower 1995-2020 Ludwig, Köln videoloop 7.15 min aankoop | purchase 2020 Zoals de titel aangeeft, is hier een inv. nr. | inv. no. 35278 bijeenkomst te zien van de vrienden die Max gerealiseerd in opdracht van het Centraal Museum Ernst ontmoette nadat hij in 1922 naar Parijs en financieel mogelijk gemaakt door het Mondriaan Fonds commissioned by the Centraal Museum and made was verhuisd. We zien onder meer Jean Arp, financially possible by the Mondriaan Fund Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Eluard en zijn vrouw speciale dank aan | special thanks to Elspeth Diederix Gala (de enige vrouw in het gezelschap) en Max Ernst zelf, op de knie van Dostojevski. De man met de rode tovenaarscape is André Deze video hoort bij het werk dat Jeroen Breton, duidelijk de leider van de groep. Er Kooijmans heeft gemaakt voor de ramen staat iets groots te gebeuren, dat voel je van het Centraal Museum aan de kant van meteen: we staan aan de vooravond van het het Nicolaaskerkhof. Kooijmans streeft surrealisme. ernaar om realiteit, fantasie en poëzie samen te brengen. Zo hoopt hij – in zijn As the title suggests, here is a meeting of the eigen woorden – een ‘wonderlijk moment’ friends that Max Ernst made after he moved to te creëren, vergelijkbaar met wat de Paris in 1922. They include Jean Arp, Giorgio surrealisten ‘le Merveilleux’ noemden; het de Chirico, Paul Eluard and his wife Gala (the Wonderbaarlijke. Thema van zijn nieuwe only woman in the company) and Max Ernst werk is de liefde. Anders dan de radicale, himself, seated on Dostoyevsky’s knee. The taboedoorbrekende visie op liefde en erotiek man with the red cape is André Breton, clearly van de surrealisten kiest Kooijmans voor een the leader of the group. Something big is about zachtere benadering. Zijn beelden zijn intiem to happen. You can sense it right away: we are en persoonlijk, een ode aan de verliefde blik. on the eve of the birth of Surrealism. This video is part of the work that Jeroen Kooijmans has made for the Centraal Museum’s windows that face the Nicolaaskerkhof. Kooijmans strives to bring reality, fantasy and poetry together in order to 6 De refter Entrance Hall 7 Onderzoek naar Exploration of seksualiteit Sexuality Het surrealisme begint in 1924 in Frankrijk, dat Surrealism began in 1924 in France, which was recovering herstellende is van de gruwelen van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. from the horrors of the First World War. Led by the writer and Onder leiding van de schrijver en dichter André Breton verzet poet André Breton, a group of young Surrealists opposed een groep jonge surrealisten zich tegen het conformisme en the conformism and rationalism of the time. Their most rationalisme van die tijd. Hun belangrijkste wapens: poëzie, important weapons were poetry, love and eroticism. For liefde en erotiek. Voor de surrealisten vormen seksuele the Surrealists, sexual fantasies and dreams were a key to fantasieën, net als dromen, een sleutel tot het bevrijden van liberating one’s own mind. de eigen geest. In the Calvinist atmosphere of the Netherlands in the In het calvinistische Nederland van de jaren dertig 1930s, Surrealism did not get much of a foothold. With one vindt de surrealistische beweging niet veel weerklank. exception: in Utrecht a small group of artists discovered the Met één uitzondering: in Utrecht ontdekt een kleine movement through foreign magazines. One of these young groep kunstenaars het surrealisme dankzij een men stood out: Joop Moesman. For Moesman, Surrealism aantal buitenlandse tijdschriften. Eén van deze jonge was a revelation. Through the Surrealist imagination, he was mannen springt eruit: Joop Moesman. Voor Moesman able to explore taboo subjects, in particular his sexual desires. is het surrealisme een openbaring. In de surrealistische verbeelding kan hij alles wat taboe is – met name zijn seksuele driften – gestalte geven.
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