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Conroy Maddox

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Biografia

'''Conroy Maddox''' (27 December 1912 – 14 January 2005) was an [[England|English]] [[surrealist]] [[Painting|painter]], collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the [[Birmingham Surrealists|Birmingham Surrealist]] movement. He was born in [[Ledbury]], [[Herefordshire]], and discovered [[surrealism]] in 1935, spending the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, [[collage]]s, photographs, objects and texts. Inspired by artists such as [[Max Ernst]], [[Óscar Domínguez]] and [[Salvador Dalí]], he rejected academic painting in favour of techniques that expressed the surrealistic spirit of rebellion. Maddox officially joined the [[British Surrealist Group]] in 1938. His creations soon began not only to challenge the conventional view of reality, but also to push pictorial expression to the limits of consciousness. He was even implicated in both scandal and controversy when, during [[World War II]], [[Scotland Yard]] suspected him of fifth columnist sabotage and mounted a surprise raid to seize works thought to contain coded messages to the enemy. Following the war he moved to [[Balsall Heath]] and began his most active period.<ref name=BHLHS> {{cite web|title=Conroy Maddox: Surrealist artist in Varna Road|url=http://www.balsallheathhistory.co.uk/journeys-to-balsall-heath/conroy-maddox-surrealist-artist-in-varna-road|publisher=Balsall Heath Local History Society|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909232415/http://www.balsallheathhistory.co.uk/journeys-to-balsall-heath/conroy-maddox-surrealist-artist-in-varna-road|archivedate=2011-09-09}} </ref> In 1948, he married Nan Burton. They had a daughter and a son together, but had the marriage dissolved in 1955. He died in London, aged 92. ==Exhibitions== * 1938 - Wertheim Gallery, London * 1940 - London Gallery, London * 1940 - ''Surrealism Today'', Zwemmer Gallery, London * 1940 - Artists International Association * 1945 - [[Leicester Galleries]], London * 1947 - International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris * 1949 - [[Royal Birmingham Society of Artists]] Galleries * 1949 - Bilston Corporation Art Gallery * 1951 - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Galleries * 1963 - Grabowski Gallery, London * 1967 - Zwemmer Gallery, London * 1967 - Exeter City Gallery, Exeter * 1973 - Hamet Gallery, London * 1976 - ''Gouaches of the 1940s'', Fischer Fine Art, London * 1978 - ''Surrealism Unlimited'', [[Camden Arts Centre]], London * 1982 - ''Peinture Surrealiste en Angleterre 1930-1960'', Galerie 1900–2000, Paris * 1994 - ''Paintings and Objects'', Gallery M, London * 2000 - ''Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1955'', Birmingham Museums * 2001 - ''Conroy Maddox. A Surrealist Odyssey'', Belgrave Gallery, London ==Bibliography== * ''Free Unions - Unions Libre'' - edited by [[Simon Watson Taylor (surrealist)|Simon Watson Taylor]] - with cover by Conroy Maddox (1946) * ''Dali'' by Conroy Maddox ([[Taschen]]) ==References== * ''The Scandalous Eye: The Surrealism of Conroy Maddox'' by [[Silvano Levy]], Liverpool University Press, 2003, 292 pages, {{ISBN|0-85323-559-7}}. {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930182352/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article15007.ece Obituary] from ''The Independent'' newspaper (UK) by Peter Davies, 15 January 2005 * [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1443666,00.html Obituary] from ''The Times'' newspaper (UK), 17 January 2005 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060305002407/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/21/db2103.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/21/ixportal.html Obituary] from the ''Daily Telegraph'' newspaper (UK), 21 January 2005 * [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1551&page=1 Conroy Maddox] at the [[Tate Gallery]] * [http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=021M-C0466X0066XX-0100V0.xml Interview] National Life Stories {{Surrealism}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maddox, Conroy}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:2005 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century English painters]] [[Category:English male painters]] [[Category:21st-century English painters]] [[Category:British surrealist artists]] [[Category:People from Ledbury]]

Bibliografia

• (EN) Silvano Levy, Surrealist interference of space, in Thomas Mical (a cura di), Surrealism and Architecture, London, Taylor & Francis, 2004, pp. 60-80, ISBN 978-0-415-32520-2, LCCN 2004004907, OCLC 265627091, SBN IT\ICCU\TO0\1456519.

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• Surrealismo

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• Surrealismo femminile