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UnicaZürn Supernormal Festival 2017.

ha ha motherfucker i found it on arena for free, along with the trumpets of zericho and hans bellmer's biography

I discovered the visual work of Unica Zürn in 2017 on a visit to the Picasso Museum in Malaga. Studying Hans Bellmer hand in hand with Rosalind Krauss, I have discovered that Unica was his partner since 1953. His plastic work consists of meticulously constructed ink drawings with fine lines, forming repeating patterns in a reticular and obsessive manner. In them, he represents extravagant fantastic creatures or other hybrid organisms between plants and microscopic beings, created from experiments with the “automatic” stroke. Most of these works were done in the 1950s and 1960s, a period during which she was romantically involved with the Polish artist Hans Bellmer. It was Bellmer who portrayed Unica Zürn's naked body tied with ropes, in the manner of her erotic fetish “la Poupée”. Unica was the subject of Bellmer's erotic fetishes as well as being admired by great Surrealism artists such as Henri Michaux, André Breton, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. Starting in 1957, she had to enter psychiatric centres several times to overcome her schizophrenic crises, especially after being photographed naked and chained by Bellmer for the cover of number 4 of Surréalisme même. His mental problems increased during the following years, until, in 1970, he ended up committing suicide by throwing himself into the void from his home in Paris. Unica Zürn The Jasmine Man (fragment) “How lucky to be before the start! Nothing can happen to us because we cannot collide with ourselves. When a million red blood cells leave her when her body is covered with innumerable red spots of joy, she writes in the manuscript of an anaemic: "Someone takes me on a journey through my being. From this perspective, the circle is closed. It runs through me inside and surrounds me from the outside - this is my new situation - and I like it (...) Blue sky at noon in spring, how many times have you suddenly darkened, when dizziness comes, the sudden disintegration of what one calls his security? At least once and I shudder to think about it. I have seen this sudden blackness with terrifying clarity. And it is that not everyone who are annihilated looks at the sky. "