EXHIBITION: JAMAIS, OSCAR DOMINGUEZ AND PABLO PICASSO
par Georges Sebbag
July 28, 2020
Exhibition: Jamais,
Oscar Dominguez and Pablo Picasso
From July 15 to November 8, 2020
at the Picasso Museum Barcelona
The surrealist object Jamais by Oscar Dominguez (a modified phonograph) reputed to be destroyed or lost has resurfaced. Thanks to a photographic report in Picasso's Paris studio dating from 1947, Emmanuel Guigon was able to find its happy owner, Catherine Hutin, Jacqueline Picasso's daughter.
We were able to establish that the Jamais phonograph was one of the highlights of the International Surrealist Exhibition of January-February 1938 at the Beaux-Arts gallery in Paris, on the same level as Dali's Rainy Taxi presented at the gallery entrance.
The Jamais exhibition, centered on the phonograph (which has been restored), allows us to recreate the atmosphere of the main hall of the 1938 exhibition and to evoke in particular the performance of the "surrealist dancer" Hélène Vanel.
A 112-page catalogue, written by Emmanuel Guigon and Georges Sebbag, and abundantly illustrated, accompanies this exhibition. The reader can choose one of the four catalogues (Spanish, Catalan, French and English).
We offer you to download in PDF an excerpt of the French version.
Exhibition curators: Georges Sebbag and Emmanuel Guigon