Unica Zürn
Unica Zürn Female
93 years old
Berlin
Germany



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During the 1960s, when she was well into middle age, the German painter and writer Unica Zürn (1916-1970) made a series of psychologically intense line drawings that combine Surrealist automatism with the mania of Outsider Art and a certain residue of contemporary experiments in psychedelic drugs. Erotic and trancelike, the works depict fantastic chimeras, bizarre creatures with double faces that represent multiplications of herself, either repeated across the page or set in intricate dream landscapes of mystic animals and otherworldly plant forms. Zürn's life reads a bit like a Freudian case study. She grew up in a well-to-do family in Weimar Berlin, surrounded by exotic objects collected by her father, a cavalry officer stationed in Africa, who was also an avid traveler and a writer. Zürn was herself equipped with a vivid imagination and, inspired perhaps by Oedipal yearnings, developed a rich interior fantasy life that is evidenced in her later drawings... As a young woman, Zürn found employment as an editor at the German national film company, and supposedly was oblivious to the horrors of Nazism until 1942, when by chance she heard an underground radio report about the concentration camps and their horrors -- a revelation that unmoored her psychologically. She was married during the war, had a two children and then divorced, with her husband obtaining custody of their offspring. By 1949, Zürn was on her own, earning a marginal existence as a journalist... Her life changed in 1953, when she met the Paris-based, German Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer. Their paths intersected at the opening of an exhibition of his work at the Maison de France on the Kufurstendamm in Berlin, and it was "mad love" from the start. Zürn immigrated to Paris to live with Bellmer, becoming his collaborator and muse. Bellmer discusses their unusual relationship in his revealing book Petit traité de l'inconscient physique ou anatomie de l'image, published in 1957.
Zürn became a member of the Paris Surrealist circle, which included Breton, Man Ray and, most significantly, Henri Michaux. A poet and a painter, Michaux had been taking mescaline as part of his personal research into human consciousness. In 1957, Zürn's participation in these experiments led to the first of what would become a series of mental crises, some of which she documented in her writings. By Zürn's own account, her fateful encounter with Michaux triggered the beginning of the mental illness that plagued the last 13 years of her life. She was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and underwent intermittent hospitalization in Berlin, Paris and La Rochelle. Despite these difficulties, Zürn continued to participate with the Paris Surrealists, exhibiting at the Galerie Le Soleil dans la Tête and taking part in the 1959 International Surrealist Exhibition devoted to "eros" at Gallery Daniel Cordier. But she was equally known for her writings, which include Hexentexte, a 1954 book of anagrams, and two powerful psychological narratives, Sombre Spring (1969) and Jasmine Man, which was published posthumously in 1971 with a frontispiece by Bellmer. With lines as provocative as, "Who knows if tonight the skeleton will not climb along the ivy up to her window and crawl into her room?" Somber Spring is an autobiographical novel that "reads more like an exorcism than a memoir," according to the cover notes. Chronicling a young woman's simultaneous introduction to both sex and mental illness, the book touches on Zürn's several obsessions: the idealized, exotic father; the contemptible, impure mother; and a troubled girl's "masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals." In the 1960s, Zürn experimented with the Surrealist "automatic" drawing technique and delved into the depths of hidden meanings that she found in cryptic anagrams and coincidental correspondences. Her increasingly frequent portrayal of aggressive creatures and uninhabitable places testifies to an ongoing mental illness, however, one that ultimately led to her suicide. In a letter in 1964 to Gaston Ferdiere -- the French psychiatrist who was Antonin Artaud's as well as Zürn's doctor -- Bellmer confesses the strange way in which the malaise of his companion was transferred to his own body and contributed to his addiction to alcohol. Her 1970 suicide (which in retrospect was foretold in Jasmine Man) occurred while she was on a five-day leave from a mental institution. Unwilling to deal with her deteriorating mental illness and despairing over her relationship with Bellmer, who was partially paralyzed and bed-ridden following a stroke, Zürn lept to her death from the window of Bellmer's Paris apartment on Oct. 19, 1970. After a long illness, Hans Bellmer died of bladder cancer on Feb. 24, 1975, and was buried next to Zürn in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Their common marble tomb is marked with a plaque inscribed with the words Bellmer wrote for Zürn's funeral wreath, five years before: "My love will follow you into Eternity." VALERY OISTEANU
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Nov 11 2009 12:38 AM





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Nov 11 2009 12:38 AM

M E R C I       m e r c i


 

Bulles d'encre  _  Jean MAS  _ Artiste Ecole de NICE - FRANCE-

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Lee Kwo



Nov 11 2009 12:37 AM

Fragment [s] of What does Memory pursue during Sleep?/
What is fantasy on the passive side is delirium on the active tragic other
the ironic experience of insanities marginal limit is a self critical hypothesis/
a spectacle for the alien volatile flesh in her unconscious/the trauma of self destruction/
to expose the repression of desperate passion for interior desecration
to be much more than oneself slowly forgetting its sadistic vigilance of moments/
witness the child is nakid not yet eating social codes not yet fully oppressed/
disappointed in its previous excesses and its present desolation of the anonymous until now
brings no other recourse than the persistence of the waste cut off the Phallus XX
a collision with castration an allegiance to wakefulness of disillusioned sexual solipsism
drugged to bear the crimes in her head the death in his astonished hands
As long as there was an object mad love was more love than madness /
an expression of silent resilience to supplication the slash is the suture
the break in continuity but not the finish seeking the slightest hint of seduction
Romrok oscillating under narcotic chain of radio active isotopes the cryptic dawn of reason
preserves the corpse which inevitably leaks desire remains as a hysterical disorder/
Nothing stops duration the dazzling void of imagination a filmic event horizon./
exploring dynamics of sonic fiction of licking and biting a violent meaning of the mouth
Nothing is deeper than the surface of a shallow grave/imperfections of inferior illumination
disrupted by increasingly frequent states of departure flights erratic time zones wet emissions
insomnia/chronic narcissism/toxic ambition/blind anxiety of surplus libidinal memory where ineluctable loneliness rages past 3am/ Regards and affection Lee
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Nov 3 2009 6:38 PM


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Nov 3 2009 6:38 PM

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Nov 3 2009 6:38 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:57 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:57 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:57 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:57 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:57 PM


 

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Oct 27 2009 7:57 PM

Smokin'!

Cheers Unica!

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Oct 27 2009 7:56 PM

Navegar é preciso

 


 


 




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Oct 27 2009 7:56 PM


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Oct 27 2009 7:56 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:56 PM


Thank you very much !
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Oct 27 2009 7:55 PM

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Oct 27 2009 7:55 PM

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Oct 19 2009 4:49 PM

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