THE THIRD EYE

Richard L. Feigen & Co. and Jan Krugier Gallery are pleased to announce a second major collaborative exhibition of works on paper from the 18th Through the 21st Century including works by Goya, Turner, Redon, Klee, Ernst, Cornell, Gorky and Basquiat.

The Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions will include some 80 works on paper, ranging from the 18th to the 21st century. The Third Eye demonstrates the visionary power of artists who see beyond formal representation into the zone of the purely invented. These artists eschew established norms, recreating, deconstructing and distilling their subject matter into a new reality. Foregoing traditional objectivity, their approach is often intuitive and subjective. The results can be euphoric and disquieting, pure and licentious, at times driven by madness and obsession.

Beginning with Romantic drawings, the exhibition includes Goya, Füssli, Géricault, Delacroix and Turner, among others. Their visionary exploration of exoticism, myth, and spirituality in the late 18th and early 19th centuries set the stage for Symbolist dreams, intuition and fantasy in the late 19th Century, as seen in works by Redon and Kubin, and then in the 20th century, with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements.

The Surrealist works by Ernst, Dali, Mirò and Tanguy explore the interior psyche, and Picasso, one of the great innovators, is represented by several works. The tradition of radical exploration of form and imagery in the later 20th century is carried forward in a number of contemporary works.

The exhibition reveals the uncanny inventiveness of the individual artists and reminds us, that, as Jonathan Swift proclaimed: "true vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

THE THIRD EYE
FANTASIES, DREAMS, AND VISIONS

mit Francisco de Goya, William Turner, Odilon Redon, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Arshile Gorky, Jean-Michel Basquiat