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Article: Cube3 sets the stage for Hayward's Surrealism show.(Hayward Gallery in London)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- May 4, 2006
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A major presentation of Surrealism inspired by Georges Bataille's short- lived radical magazine Documents opens at the Hayward Gallery in London next week, with exhibition design by Cube3.
Undercover Surrealism is an attempt to represent the wide-ranging coverage of Documents in an exhibition environment. Founded by philosopher and writer Bataille in 1929, the magazine ran for just 15 issues until 1930, covering the avant-garde movement from many viewpoints, including art, music and ethnography.
The Hayward Gallery presentation has gathered more than 200 objects that featured in the pages of Documents to recreate Bataille's vision over 500m2 in three ...