Title: ART AND PSYCHE The freudian Legacy at CDS Gallery
Category: Exhibition
When: From September 14th to November 24th at regular hours
Where: CDS Gallery, 76 East 79 Street, New York, NY 10075
Details: Featuring works of Nicolas Africano, Jonathan Borofsky, Charles Brown, Julie Cockburn, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Timothy Cummings, Edmund Engelman, Max Ernst, Eric Fischl, Gonzalo Fonseca, Lucian Freud, Arshile Gorky, Marcel Jean, Leon Kelly, Roberto Matta, Charles Matton, Jorge Michel, Odd Nerdrum, Jackson Pollock, Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, Kurt Seligmann, Hedda Sterne, Christian Vincent.
Sigmund Freud set the cornerstone of modern psychology when he demonstrated that the unconscious mind is active in organizing conscious experience. He described how forbidden desires are repressed into the unconscious and then relum to consciousness in symbolic form. By the 1930s the Surrealist artists in this exhibition were inspired to depict their dreams and fantasies.
Today we are in the midst of another revolution, one Freud longed to be part of, in which neuroscientists are discovering the neurological, biochemical, and genetic substrates in the brain for desires, repression, and symbolism. Throughout the twentieth century most neurologists viewed the brain as a rigid machine, like a computer, hard-wired for specific tasks. But today neuroscientists are confirming Freud’s hypothesis that the mind is more flexible, and in the last. two decades they have established that the brain is a plastic organ that continually changes itself. Reflecting this radical shift in attitude toward the mind, artists today create symbols for the flux and flow of conscious experience. Whereas the Surrealists focused exclusively on the unconscious realm, the contemporary artists in this exhibition depict not only dreams and memories, but also the workings of the conscious mind—the mystery of human consciousness.
Lynn Gamwell,
Curator
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