The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets, an exhibition and accompanying film retrospective which will be the first presentation of the Quay Brothers’ work in all their fields of creative activity. Internationally renowned moving image artists and designers, the Quay Brothers were born outside Philadelphia and have worked from their London studio, Atelier Koninck, since the late 1970s.
For over 30 years, they have been in the avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action movie-making in the Eastern European tradition of filmmakers like Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Svankmajer and the Russian Yuri Norstein, and have championed a design aesthetic influenced by the graphic surrealism of Polish poster artists of the 1950s and 1960s.
Dates: from August 12 to January 7.
Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 West 53 Street. New York, NY 10019. USA.
Opening hours : Monday, Wednesday, Thusday, Saturday and Sunday from 10.30am to 5.30pm. Fridays from 10.30am to 8pm.