{"title":"Jorge Camacho","description":"\u003cp\u003eJorge Camacho (1934, Havana — 2011, Paris) was a Cuban-born painter who became one of the most distinctive figures within the international Surrealist movement. After studying law in Havana, he moved to Paris in 1959, where he met André Breton in 1961 and was formally welcomed into the Surrealist circle. His work was included in the last major Surrealist group exhibitions and continued to develop the movement’s preoccupations long after its dispersal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamacho’s painting is dense, hermetic and technically exacting. His canvases accumulate layered forms — hybrid creatures, alchemical symbols, fragmented anatomies, ritual objects — rendered in fine, controlled brushwork against grounds of deep colour or near-darkness. From the late 1960s, alchemy became a sustained framework for his practice, pursued through close study of historical texts and through exchanges with writers and researchers including Bernard Roger. The exhibition publication \u003cem\u003eLe Ton Haut\u003c\/em\u003e (Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, 1969) documents this period directly, combining Camacho’s emblems with Roger’s text and adapted historical engravings in the form of a small hermetic manual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamacho exhibited widely across Europe and the Americas, with major presentations at Galerie Mathias Fels in Paris, and his work entered significant public and private collections internationally. Publications produced in connection with his exhibitions — catalogues, folded announcements, illustrated checklists — are among the most visually concentrated documents of post-war Surrealism in France.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jorge-camacho-le-ton-haut-mathias-fels-paris-1969","title":"JORGE CAMACHO — Le Ton Haut. Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis: Galerie Mathias Fels \u0026amp; Cie, 1969. Published for \u003cem\u003eCamacho: Peintures récentes\u003c\/em\u003e, May 1969. Text by Bernard Roger. Printed by Georges Girard, Paris. Three-panel folded exhibition publication with separate folded checklist leaf. 27 × 16 cm folded; 48 × 27 cm unfolded. Black offset printing on cream laid paper. Edition of 1,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General age toning, scattered marks and foxing, with rubbing, softened edges and wear along the original folds. Contemporary pencilled price notation to the front. Complete with the separate illustrated checklist of 21 exhibited works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Havana, Jorge Camacho moved to Paris in 1959 and became closely associated with the Surrealist circle after meeting André Breton in 1961. By the late 1960s, alchemy had become central to his work, developed through exchanges with writers and researchers including Bernard Roger, who contributed the text for this exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Ton Haut\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds across three connected panels. Camacho’s emblems are placed beside adapted historical engravings, circular inscriptions and Roger’s text, while the separate leaf lists the 21 paintings shown at Galerie Mathias Fels. The exhibition catalogue takes the structure of a small hermetic manual: image, language and symbol arranged for repeated reading rather than simple documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication was issued in 1,000 copies. Forty numbered examples included an original signed etching and the signatures of Camacho and Roger; this is the standard exhibition issue, retaining its original checklist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe paper has darkened and gathered marks through storage and handling, making the folds increasingly visible. Opened fully, the administrative form of an exhibition catalogue gives way to a continuous field of diagrams, fragments and coded images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie Mathias Fels \u0026 Cie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53988445651282,"sku":"CAMACHO-FELS-CAT-1969","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Camacho_Jorge._LE_TON_HAUT_Paris_Mathias_Fels._1969.jpg?v=1783929674"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/jorge-camacho.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}