Watch Tea with Elena and Bob: A conversation on Surrealism with Lady Elena Foster and Bob Colacello on the occasion of The Neverending Story: Part II, curated by Bob Colacello, at Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz.
The exhibition continues to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement launched in Paris in 1924, with the French poet and philosopher Andre Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism. “I believe in the future resolution of these two states,” wrote Breton, “dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.” The exhibition includes works by members and associates of the original group, including Salvador Dalì, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, and Pablo Picasso, as well as works by such successors as Ai Weiwei, Francesco Clemente, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, and Jean-Michel Basquiat (in collaboration with Andy Warhol). Representing the new generation: Robert Nava, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Angel Otero, and Isabelle Albuquerque.
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Bob Colacello was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised on Long Island. He graduated from Georgetown School of Foreign Service in 1969, and Columbia Graduate School of the Arts in 1971 with an MFA in Film. By then he had been hired to run Andy Warhol’s new magazine, Interview, a job he held for thirteen years, becoming one of the artist’s closest creative collaborators. His memoir of that period, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, was published in 1990.
From 1984 to 2017, Colacello was a lead writer for Vanity Fair, covering cultural, social, and political subjects. In 2004, he published a biography of the Reagans, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House. He has published two books of his photographs from the 1970s and 1980s: Bob Colacello’s OUT from 7L Steidl in 2007; and It Just Happened from Ivorypress in 2021.
Since 2015, Colacello has been a Senior Director at Vito Schnabel Gallery. Colacello was named Associate Director of the Peter Marino Art Foundation in Southampton, New York in 2021.
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Lady Elena Ochoa Foster is a publisher and art curator. She was a Fulbright Scholar and a Professor of Psychopathology in the US, UK, Germany and Spain for over 20 years. Ochoa Foster is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ivorypress since 1996 to the present. She has curated international exhibitions, from 'C on Cities' (10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy, 2006), 'Blood on Paper' (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2008), 'Real Venice' (54th Venice Biennale of Art, Venice, Italy, 2011); and Somerset House (London, United Kingdom, 2012) to 'ToledoContemporánea' (Fundación El Greco, Toledo, Spain, 2014), among others. From 2021 to 2022, Ochoa Foster curated a multi-institutional exhibition programme involving museums and libraries across Europe and the United States.
From 2005 to 2010, Ochoa Foster was the Chair of the Tate Galleries Council (United Kingdom), and Trustee of the Tate Foundation (United Kingdom). Currently, Elena Ochoa Foster serves as part of the Board of Trustees of the Serpentine, and as Chair of the Serpentine Council since 2017.