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The concept behind the exhibition began with the Pulitzer’s Watercourt. Its meditative reflecting pool and hewed boulder - Scott Burton’s Rock Settee (1988-89) - create an insular dreamscape in the middle of our city. A glass wall divides the Watercourt from the rest of the Pulitzer building. Similarly, René Magritte’s Le monde invisible (The Invisible World) (1954) depicts an incongruous boulder in a room with open glass doors that frame a waterscape beyond. This painting, along with others depicting boulders floating in air, create a unified yet disorienting space out of both the Entrance Gallery and the adjacent Watercourt. Mimicked is a dream that presents ambiguity between indoor and outdoor spaces, refutes gravity’s powers, and shuffles a mundane object like a boulder into different settings.
The Main Gallery presents a compelling, stylistically diverse group of twentieth-century works. Paintings by Paul Delvaux and Max Ernst appear alongside those by Philip Guston and Joan Miró, offering viewers a range of fantastic visions and disconcerting scenes. Visitors entering the Cube Gallery may experience the sensation of walking into a dreamer’s world when they become immersed in the vibrant red hue of Do Ho Suh’s Staircase, custom-fitted in Korea for this exhibition. The translucent red nylon staircase, disembodied from its original domestic and geographic context, subverts the rational mind’s desire to think logically and make valid judgments about objects in space.
Featured in the Lower Gallery is a selection of images created before 1900 that explore dreaming and dream imagery. Albrecht Dürer’s The Dream of the Doctor (1498-99), Max Klinger’s Glove Cycle (1881), and Katharina Fritsch’s enlarged reproductions of nineteenth-century newspaper illustrations (2007-2008) reveal nightmarish personifications of human fears and desires, all of which prefigure the dream symbolism of Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis.
Numerous dream experiences occur unexpectedly in the smaller spaces and passageways of the Pulitzer. Visitors are invited to pick up a receiver from one of the telephones located deep within the recesses of the building and listen to the raspy, estranged voice of contemporary artist Janet Cardiff as she recalls a dream she had just moments before waking.
Throughout Dreamscapes, symposia and talks integrating the disciplines of art history, psychoanalysis and neurology will be held on the process of dreaming and dream imagery. In addition, we will investigate questions about the social relevance of art with related community programming. To supplement the installation, the Pulitzer will offer an illustrated publication and an interactive online catalogue.
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The Invisible World, 1954
René Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)
Oil on canvas
77 x 51 5/8 in. (195.6 x 130.8 cm)
The Menil Collection, Houston (V 615)
© 2010 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Transformed Dream, 1913
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, born Greece, 1888–1978)
Oil on canvas
25 x 59 ¾ in. (63.5 x 151.8 cm)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 313:1951
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
Rock Settee, 1988-90
Scott Burton (American, 1939–1989)
Granite
35 ½ x 106 x 62 ½ in. (90.2 x 269.2 x 158.8 cm)
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
© 2011 Scott Burton / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Village of the Mermaids, 1942
Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897–1994)
Oil on panel
41 1/16 x 48 7/8 (104.3 x 124.1 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, 1951.73
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels
The Eye of Silence, 1943–44
Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976)
Oil on canvas
43 ¼ x 56 ¼ in. (109.9 x 142.9 cm)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Kende Sale Fund, 1946
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Pee Body, 1992
Kiki Smith, American (born Germany, 1954)
Wax and glass beads
Figure: 27 x 28 x 28 in.
Beads: 23 strands of varying lengths, 1 ft. to over 15 ft. long
Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Promised gift in part of
Barbara Lee and Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Purchase in part from the
Joseph A. Baird, Jr., Francis H. Burr Memorial, and Director's
Acquisition Funds, 1997.82
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando and situated in St. Louis' Grand Center district, the Pulitzer presents changing exhibitions and engages in a variety of programming initiatives involving the visual, literary, and performing arts.
Through art exhibitions, programs, collaborations and exchanges with other institutions, the Pulitzer aims to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of art and architecture and is a resource for artists, architects, scholars, students and the general public.
The Pulitzer is open and free to the public Wednesdays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Pulitzer is located at 3716 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108.
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