Man Ray and Francis Picabia In Dialog at Vito Schnabel

In 1916, the most exciting art movement appeared and echoed on the international scale as an immediate reaction to the absurdity of WW I. Under the name Dada, a word that Richard Huelsenbeck and Hugo Ball accidentally found in a French-German dictionary, the movement grew rapidly and gathered numerous artists expressing themselves with all means possible, from painting and photography, to performance and literature.

Although marked as anti-art, berzerk, and meaningless, Dada’s raw energy enabled artists to express a myriad of emotions and fully plunge into experimentation. Among those who created memorable works of art while affiliated with the movement were the two avant-garde giants, Man Ray and Francis Picabia.

To take a closer look at their intersectional practices through a prism of an imaginary dialog, Vito Schnabel Gallery decided to organize an exhibition simply called Man Ray & Picabia, that will bring nine paintings made by the artists in between the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.

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