2011
will mark EXCOR's MIDLIFE. We have just published an 80-page book of our
adventure featuring the history of Exquisite Corpse, our EXCOR revival story,
and images of all 50 works.
We believe the combination of the fascinating
Surrealist history followed by the “new surrealists” similarly rebelling against
today's "raging madness" makes an unusual and creatively-intriguing
story and event.
ART OPENING, FRIDAY AUGUST 12,
7 TO 9PM
Firehouse Art Collective Gallery North
1790 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709
EXCOR: The Art of CHANCE
Revival of
Exquisite Corpse
EXCOR, a group of Nor Cal artists, is a revitalization of
the mid-20's Surrealist game, Exquisite Corpse – one of many games of chance,
discovery, and hilarity played as a diversion against the "raging
madness" of the decade.
This is a blind collaborative visual exercise
where one artist begins by creating a head (of sorts), conceals it from the
next who completes the torso, and a third player is assigned the bottom of the
creation – none of them having seen the others' work.
Notable artists of the
time, such as Duchamp, Ernst, Tanguy, Man Ray, Picabia, Miro, and Dali produced
some remarkable creations via this game.
Excor
artists: Jenny Honnert Abell, Todd Barricklow, Foster Beigler, Don
Bishop, Katie Black, Mary Black, Deborah Colotti, Pam Dixon, Max DuBois, Connie
Goldman, Harley, Deborah Hayner. Marna Hill, Corey Hitchcock, Kurt Kemp, Dina
Kuntz, Helena Leifer, Hamlet Mateo, Sherry Parker, Deborah Salomon, Michael
Scheurer, Sylvia Seventy, Wil Smith, Karen Sommer, Stan Sommer, Jennifer Sturgill,
Sandra Ortiz Taylor, Bunny Tobias, Patti Trimble, Mario Uribe, Sally Weare,
Shane Weare, Bob Yagura.
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