UnCultured

A Queer Collage by Joanna Zawazdzka

First brought to our attention by London-based graphic designer and illustrator, Joanna Zawazdzka, the collages of Deger Bakir made an indelible impression. His twists on scale and form are remarkable and arresting, warped and beautiful. Arms reach out of cityscapes, withered legs traipse along carpet-like wallpaper, celebrities of yore kiss against artificial backdrops. Deger’s work feels almost as though surrealist Salvador Dali and cubist Pablo Picasso got together with some old magazines and scissors and went to work on a collaboration, the kind of arts and crafts project dreams are made of.

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

Andy always picks people because they have an amazing sort of essential flame, and he brings it out for the purposes of his films. He never takes anybody who has nothing and makes them into something. -Henry Geldzahler

Dali Miami Brings Magic Surrealism to Miami

Call it the ultimate surrealist presentation. Dali Miami is set to shake up the artistic establishment when it unveils its 200-piece collection at the Moore Building in Design District, a galaxy far away from the confines of any of the largely underwhelming local museums. In addition to sculptures, paintings, and whatnots, there will be a continuous showing of the 1929 film Un Chien Andalou, the iconic 17-minute French film that explores the destructive elements of the psyche and unconsciousness, collaboration between Salvador Dali and director Luis Buñuel. Not phantasmagoric enough for ya? Consider this: for the opening night celebrity chef Adrianne Calvo will recreate recipes inspired by Les Diners de Gala, the cookbook Dali completed as an homage to his wife Gala. A test pilot for what organizers hope to become a jacked-up artistic tour de force, Dali Miami is as ambitious as the eccentric artists, who drove around in a Rolls Royce filled to the max with cauliflower. And if all goes according to the master plan, the producers are taking this show on the road.