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House of the Sleeping Beauties

14 February 2019 - 28 March 2019 | London
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  • Joseph Cornell
    Untitled, 1933

  • Renate Bertlmann
    René ou Renée - mit Büste (René or Renée - with Bust), 1977

  • Francis Picabia
    Untitled, circa 1940-42

  • Rose English
    Jo and Tail 3, 1974

  • Sherrie Levine
    Dada, 2008

  • Natalia LL
    Sztuka Konsumpcyjna (Consumer Art), 1973/1991

  • John Tweedle
    Untitled (2 Women), 1967

  • Diane Kotila
    Untitled, 2018

  • Kurt Seligmann
    Dream of Nicholas Flamel, 1939

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Sale Number: LS1901 Lots : 101
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Sex and Subversion in the House of the Sleeping Beauties

From 14 February to 28 March, S│2 London will present House of the Sleeping Beauties; an exhibition touching upon the concepts of the erotic, the body, surrealism, performance and theatricality in art from the 19th century to present day.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a reprint of Yasunari Kawabata’s 1961 novella of the same name. Artists such as Francis Picabia, Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp will be exhibited alongside artists of the sixties and seventies such as Renate Bertlmann, ULAY, Natalia LL to artists such as Keith Vaughan, Wally Hedrick, John Tweddle, and Kurt Seligmann who have remained on the edges of mainstream art history to contemporary artists such as Issy Wood, Lili Dujourie and Diane Kotila that are re-interpreting these themes today.

Diverse in both geographical and temporal terms, the works of the artists in the exhibition exist in a state of open-endedness, coaxing discreet visual connections at all times, bleeding from the corporeal reality to the unconscious dream-state.

14 February – 28 March 2019
Tue-Fri 10am – 6pm
Mondays by appointment
S│2 London, 31 St. George Street, London W1S 2FJ 

Sex and Subversion in the House of the Sleeping Beauties

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Darren Leak
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S|2 Gallery
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Bianca Chu
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S|2 Gallery
+44 207 293 5668
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Liberty Paterson
S2 Gallery Manager
S|2 Gallery
+44 207 293 5502
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