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This powerful relationship with nature is evident in a trio of works.

A circa 1900 Yup’ik mask depicting a round seal face with large, Save deep, vacant eyes is displayed near a rectangular bronze sculpture by Max Ernst from 1960 that boasts a lunar-like orb bearing eyelike depressions that hauntingly resemble the mask. A (http://www.galeriemagazine.com)

How Native Alaskan Culture In�uenced Surrealist Masters A fascinating exhibition at New York’s Di Donna Galleries sheds light on a long overlooked cultural exchange

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glittering scene painted by Leonora Carrington in 1950, meanwhile, features half-abstracted �gures in various attitudes of ecstasy or action that �lter the foreground of a �attened and desolate landscape under a gold-leaf moon that hovers against a red sky, much like Ernst’s cold seal-eyed moon.

The links between Yup’ik mask imagery and Surrealism is even more readily apparent in pairings such as Victor Brauner’s Germination, 1955, in which his brightly colored half-animal, half- human �gures look like they could be painted versions of the geometrically complex Yup’ik mask displayed next to it. Kay Sage directly copied Yup’ik masks into some of her paintings and assemblages, even going so far as to draw a mask of her own in her Design for a Tarot Card from 1944. Other artists integrated the performance of mask wearing into their work, as seen in Kati Horna’s 1957 black-and-white photo of Spanish artist Remedios Varo in a mask made by Carrington.

“The overlap between these artists, and between cultures and interpretations of these symbols, is what fascinated me about this show,” says gallery owner Di Donna, who met with Ellis earlier this year to begin planning the exhibition. “Seeing these masks and these works all together brings a richer understanding of one of the most important movements in the 20th century.”

For Ellis, the Yup’ik masks have their own agency within art history. “These objects have so much beauty and power beyond the Surrealists,” he says. “I look at the mask that Enrico Donati used to own displayed next to his painting Medisance de l’air and think not about how the artist looked at the mask, but about how the mask watched the artist paint that picture.” (http://www.galeriemagazine.com)

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Intrigued by the shamanistic ritualism and transformational aspirations of Yup’ik mask making, the Surrealists found new ways to express their own interest in dream imagery, mysticism, and psychic exploration. According to Ellis, every year new mask designs were envisaged by shamans, who then related them to a mask maker. Often combining animal and human characteristics, the completed masks were worn by dancers, who became conduits between the physical and spiritual worlds to guide hunters to food in the dark, sunless days and cold, moonlit depths of the Alaskan winter.

This powerful relationship with nature is evident in a trio of works.

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Kati Horna’s photo of Spanish artist and witch Remedios Varo, 1957.

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Intrigued by the shamanistic ritualism and transformational aspirations of Yup’ik mask making, the Surrealists found new ways to express their own interest in dream imagery, mysticism, and psychic exploration. According to Ellis, every year new mask designs were envisaged by shamans, who then related them to a mask maker. Often combining animal and human characteristics, the completed masks were worn by dancers, who became conduits between the physical and spiritual worlds to guide hunters to food in the dark, sunless days and cold, moonlit depths of the Alaskan winter.

This powerful relationship with nature is evident in a trio of works.

 

Enrico Donati, Médisance de l’air, 1947.

Photo: Courtesy of Di Donna Galleries  

Victor Brauner’s Germination painting from 1955 hangs beside a Yup’ik mask.

Photo: Margaret Carrigan. 2018 ARS, New York/ADAGP, Paris

 

Victor Brauner’s Germination painting from 1955 hangs beside a Yup’ik mask.

Photo: Margaret Carrigan. 2018 ARS, New York/ADAGP, Paris

 

Kay Sage, Midnight Street, 1944.

Photo: 2018 Estate of Kay Sage/ARS, New York

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Max Ernst, Le Roi jouant avec la reine, conceived in 1944 cast in the 1950s by the Modern Art Foundry.

Photo: Private Collection, Courtesy Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York, 2018 (ARS), NEW YORK / ADAGP, PARIS

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Joan Miró, Personnage dans la nuit, 1944.

Photo: Courtesy of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection, 2018 Successió Miró/ARS, New York/ADAGP, Paris

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