Picabia Francis

Gabriële Buffet ha ventisette anni quando, nel 1908, incontra Francis Picabia, giovane artista di successo dalla fama sulfurea. Valente piani sta, Gabriële ha studiato composizione a Parigi e poi a Berlino, dove ha stretto amicizia con Edgard Varèse. Nel primo decennio del Nove cento, in cui splende il talento di compositori quali Rachmaninov, Ravel, Mahler e Schönberg, è certamente un'esperienza esaltante essere una giovane musicista. L'incontro con Picabia si rivela, però, un coup de foudre tale che Gabriële non esita a lasciare il pianoforte e gli spartiti per seguire il giovane pittore. Nel 1909 i due si sposano e Gabriële Buffet diventa Gabriële Buffet Picabia. Semplice moglie e musa, dunque, del famoso artista e scrittore francese, amico di Marcel Duchamp, esponente di punta del gruppo proto-Dada Puteaux?

Dada was an art movement that sprang up in Zurich Switzerland roughly around 1916. It emerged largely in response to the atrocities and insanity of World War 1, and sought to find and experiment with new forms of expression in an attempt to rejuvenate the creative act. After the end of the war in 1918, Dada spread to Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hanover), where it was to rebel against the increasingly militaristic and nationalistic policies of the emerging far right as typified by the eventual rise to power of Hitler's Nazi party. Dada was important in an Art historical context in that it paved the way and laid the foundations for surrealism which was to follow. Many of the artists active in dada later becoming influential and active within surrealism. Although Dada groups existed in several forms for longer and shorter periods in other areas such in Paris, Italy, the Netherlands and New York. It's spiritual and historical home has always been in Zurich (Switzerland), with a special mention going to post world war 1 Germany. It is for this reason that this website will largely concentrate on these two areas of the Dada movement.

Dada was an art movement that sprang up in Zurich Switzerland roughly around 1916. It emerged largely in response to the atrocities and insanity of World War 1, and sought to find and experiment with new forms of expression in an attempt to rejuvenate the creative act. After the end of the war in 1918, Dada spread to Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hanover), where it was to rebel against the increasingly militaristic and nationalistic policies of the emerging far right as typified by the eventual rise to power of Hitler's Nazi party. Dada was important in an Art historical context in that it paved the way and laid the foundations for surrealism which was to follow…

Four CD set. Les Disques du Crepuscule presents a comprehensive anthology by visionary French avant-garde composer Erik Satie, collecting together piano works associated with the Dada, Cubist and Surrealist art movements, as well as his celebrated musique d'ameublement (furniture music) written between 1917 and 1923. The four CDs are housed in a clamshell box, which also includes an illustrated 32 page booklet featuring detailed liner notes by James Nice and Stephen Whittington.

Con il loro salotto artistico e letterario - che negli anni tra le due guerre era frequentato, tra gli altri, da Picasso, Picabia, Matisse, Braque, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson - Alice B. Toklas e Gertrude Stein hanno fatto un pezzo di storia. Ma quando, dopo la morte di Gertrude, un editore chiese ad Alice di scrivere le sue memorie, lei si schermì dicendo che al massimo sarebbe stata in grado di scrivere un libro di cucina. L'editore promise di accontentarsi, ma Toklas fece molto di più…