Exposition Surrealiste
Salvador Dali’s The Rainy Taxi (Mannequin Rotting in a Taxi-Cab) (1938), at the the International Surrealist Exhibition at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Paris, Galerie Charles Ratton, 1936
Parallel of Life and Art, London, 1953
The Independent Group met at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London from 1952-55
The Independent Group had its first meeting early in 1952 which consisted of Eduardo Paolozzi feeding a mass of colourful images from American magazines through an epidiascope. These images, collected when Paolozzi was resident in Paris during the late 1940s.
Key members at this stage included the artist Richard Hamilton, surrealist and magazine art director Toni del Renzio, sculptor William Turnbull and the photographer Nigel Henderson, along with the art critic Lawrence Alloway and fine artist John McHale.
Independent Group Ausstellung
THIS IS TOMORROW, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1956
This is Tomorrow has become an iconic exhibition notable not only for the arrival of the naming of Pop Art but also as a captured moment for the long term effect of the multi-disciplinary merging of the disciplines of art and architecture
The Press Release for This Is Tomorrow teased the show would range from: “orthodox abstract art, with its classical regularity and rational order, through room-size sculptures to walk through, to crazy-house structures plastered with pin-up images from the popular press.”
