Imaginary Ancestors - Almine Rech Editions 2018

by Agustín Cárdenas , Alexander Calder , Barnett Newman , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Günther Förg , and Pablo Picasso

"Imaginary Ancestors" looks at Primitivism in modern and contemporary art, on the one hand restaging a seminal 1933 Durand-Ruel Gallery exhibition in New York of Fang sculptures and contemporary paintings of the time, and on the other hand presenting a parallel exhibition of Primitivist modern and affiliated contemporary works.

Essays by Bernard de Grunne and Carlo Severi
Conversation between Almine Rech and François Bellet

19,5 x 24,5 cm, 354 pages, Hardcover, En
Edition of 1500