Kurt Seligmann : First Message from the Spirit World of the Object. Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco May 9 - June 13, 2015 with a private view card

20 x 28cm 180pp very good hardback exhibition catalogue with a private view card for the show. Has essays by Timothy Baum, Stephan E. Hauser, Stephen Robeson Miller, Martica Sawin, Meyer Schairo, Kurt Seligmann. With many colour plus black and white reproductions. Born in Basel, Switzerland in 1900, the Swiss-American Surrealist Kurt Seligmann s life and work consisted of a fine balance: a gracious respect for his ancestry, past artists, his experiences as a youth, and his studies of magic and ethnographic arts, combined with a pursuit of progression, both in the avant-garde movements and the tumultuous political times within which he lived. His work stands as an amalgamation of an artist keenly aware of and active within his surrounding realities, and on a quest to create a language of characters and imagery to express his intuitions and imaginations.