Samy Rosenstock’s idea for a great big book is getting a great big show nearly 100 years later.
Dadaglobe Reconstructed reunites over 100 works created for Dadaglobe, Tristan Tzara’s planned but unrealized magnum opus, originally slated for publication in 1921. An ambitious anthology that aimed to document Dada’s international activities, Dadaglobe was not merely a vehicle for existing works, but served as a catalyst for the production of new ones. Tzara invited some 50 artists from 10 countries to submit artworks in four categories: photographic self-portraits, photographs of artworks, original drawings, and layouts for book pages. The exhibition brings together these photographs, drawings, photomontages, and collages, along with a selection of related archival material, to reconstruct this volume. Though never published, due to financial and organizational difficulties, Tzara’s project addresses concerns about art’s reproducibility that continue to be relevant today.Dadaglobe Reconstructed
(June 12–September 18, 2016)
I’m Located about 3000 miles west of NYC/MoMA, so I’d like to see a catalog of this stuff some day.
But most of all, I’d like to have a mountain named after Tristan; something like “Mount Tzara,” maybe somewhere in the Swiss Alps.