By Janie Perez-Radler
Slip back into the city and under the primordial trees at the recently renovated Transamerica Redwood Park. Twelve bronze sculptures by Max Ernst linger in the shade of the trees and towering pyramid, a cohesive cohort presented by Gallery Wendi Norris, in partnership with SHVO.
Crafted by Ernst in 1938 during his time living with his then lover, Leonora Carrington in the south of France, these sculptures strolled out of the illicit couple’s surrealist hideaway (forty-six-year-old Ernst having left his wife for the 20-year-old Carrington). Born in that romantic summer domesticity, these works frolic happily under the trees in this pocket forest. Don’t miss the sculpture tucked away inside Transamerica architect William Pereira's pyramid, suspected to have been made collaboratively with Carrington. In this serene pseudo-nature reprieve, Ernst’s and Carrington's ill-fated fairy tale lives on.
