Weinstein Gallery requests the pleasure of your company

on the occasion of the opening of

ENRICO DONATIPrima Materia

and the release of the new monograph, Enrico Donati, by Dawn Ades

with contributions by Ann Temkin, Marie Mauzé, and Cynthia Albertson, published by Skira Rizzoli.

20 FEBRUAR RIL, 2016

WEINSTEIN G ALLERY444 Clementina Street

San Francisco, CA 94103415-362-8151

Exhibition Events

PANEL DISCUSSION20 February at 4:00 PM

Featuring our distinguished and esteemed guests —

Surrealist curator and scholar, Dawn Ades, anthropologist Marie Mauzé, and Museum of Modern Art conservator, Cynthia Albertson.

Browne.

OPENING VERNISSAGE20 February at 6:00–8:00 PM

Champagne and hors d’oeuvres reception

SUNDAY SALON SERIES21 February at 1:00 PM

Surrealism and EthnographyA lecture and discussion with Marie Mauzé and noted specialist

of historical Native American art, Donald Ellis

Kindly RSVP for each eventrsvp@weinstein.com or 415-362-8151

Panelist Biographies

D A is a Fellow of the British Academy, a former trustee of the Tate, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy and was awarded a CBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2013 for her services to art history. She has been responsible for some of the most important international exhibitions over the past thirty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Art in Latin America and Francis Bacon. Most recently she organized the highly successful exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Salvador Dalí at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2004), �e Colour of my Dreams: �e Surrealist Revolution in Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011), and was Associate Curator for Manifesta 9 (2012). She has published standard works on photomontage, Dada, Surrealism, women artists and Mexican muralists. Dawn is the lead author on the new monograph Enrico Donati and joins us from London.

M M, PhD is a senior researcher in anthropology and a member of the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale (CNRS) in Paris. She has conducted fieldwork in British Columbia with the Kwakwaka’wakw since 1980 and has visited several other First Nations’ communities including the Nuu-chah-nulth and Nuxalk. In addition to numerous articles in French and English, she is the author of Les Fils de Wakai. Une histoire des Lekwiltoq, co-publisher with Marine Degli of Arts premiers, editor of Present is Past: Some Uses of Tradition in Native Societies, and co-editor with Michael Harkin and Sergei Kan of Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions. Most recently she contributed to the edition of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Oeuvres. Her areas of study and expertise include Northwest Coast ethnology, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, material cultural studies, the history of collecting and museums, and representations of indigenous societies. She is currently working on the anthropology of the native and Western gazes on Northwest Coast masks. Dr. Mauzé joins us from Paris.

C B (Moderator), is a writer, curator, documentary filmmaker and film historian working in British Columbia. He was co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing and the Praxis Screenwriter’s Workshop and serves on several boards, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Audio-Visual Heritage Association of BC and �e Capilano Review. He is Professor Emeritus in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he taught film production, film studies and critical writing. His most recent book, �e Hatch, was published by Talonbooks in 2015. He was involved in the restoration of Edward Curtis’ feature film In the Land of the Head Hunters, shot on Vancouver Island in 1913–1914. His most recent projects include a study of Charles Edenshaw and a catalogue essay, “Scavengers of Paradise,” which was published by the Vancouver Art Gallery during its 2011 exhibition on Surrealism and explores the Surrealist romance with the ceremonial art of the Northwest Coast and Alaska. He currently is a guest curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery for the exhibition opening in 2016, I had an interesting French Artist to see me this summer: Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen in British Columbia.

C A is a conservator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has published and lectured on the materials and methods of Claes Oldenburg, Piet Mondrian and Diego Rivera. In addition to her current essay in Enrico Donati, she has contributed to Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art, Mondrian en het kubisme: Paris 1912-1914, and �e Public Face of Conservation. She is on the steering committee for the Alliance for Response NYC and is an Associate Member of the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Ms. Albertson joins us from New York City.

Donati’s fist-face in tree stump, c. 1947. Photograph by Hans Namuth