{"title":"Wolfgang Paalen","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolfgang Paalen (1905–1958) was an Austrian-born painter, sculptor, and theorist associated with Surrealism, whose practice moved restlessly between European modernism, pre-Columbian culture, Indigenous Northwest Coast art, and a speculative cosmological abstraction he termed \u003cem\u003eDynaton\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter early involvement with the Surrealist movement in Paris and participation in the 1938 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Paalen emigrated to Mexico in 1939, where he founded the influential journal \u003cem\u003eDYN\u003c\/em\u003e (1942–1944), which anticipated many concerns of Abstract Expressionism and opened dialogue between European avant-garde thought and the Americas. His writing and painting consistently sought a synthesis of art, science, and anthropology — a modernism oriented toward the future rather than the unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaalen’s final years in Mexico were marked by increasing isolation and a return to large-scale painting. He died in 1958. A posthumous retrospective was organised in Paris in 1960 at Librairie Loliée, accompanied by a text by Octavio Paz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents connected to Paalen’s practice and posthumous reception.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paalen-en-hommage-octavio-paz-librairie-loliee-inv-1960","title":"Wolfgang Paalen — “En Hommage” \/ Octavio Paz Text Insert, Librairie Loliée, Paris, 1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal exhibition insert \/ printed text sheet\u003cbr\u003eLibrairie Loliée, Paris, November 1960\u003cbr\u003eIssued in relation to a posthumous Wolfgang Paalen retrospective organised by Géo Dupin\u003cbr\u003eFrench text by Octavio Paz\u003cbr\u003ePrinted in black on cream paper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small posthumous document for Wolfgang Paalen, carrying an elegiac text by Octavio Paz on one side and a concise loan record on the other. The verso lists three works by Paalen loaned by Mme Géo Dupin: \u003cem\u003ePersonnages dans une grotte\u003c\/em\u003e 1933, \u003cem\u003eSelam Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e 1947, and \u003cem\u003eSans titre\u003c\/em\u003e 1954.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaalen moved between Surrealism, Mexico, poetry, science, pre-Columbian culture, and abstraction. His work and writing helped open a route away from orthodox European Surrealism toward a more speculative, cosmological modernism. Paz’s text frames this passage directly: painting as flight, solitude, vertigo, and return to space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sheet survives as a secondary object from that circulation. Not the painting, not the catalogue, but the retained support: homage, text, loan list, correction, afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Age toning, soft handling creases, light corner wear, minor surface marks consistent with period paper ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included. Ships flat, protected, and tracked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53699283091794,"sku":"PAALEN-LOLIEE-INV-1960","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Wolfgang_Paalen._Show_invite_En_Hommage_._1960_front.jpg?v=1781068483"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/wolfgang-paalen.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}