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Dušan and Voitre Marek Surrealists at Sea

The exhibition ‘Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at Sea’ brings together the work of two brothers, who last exhibited together in Adelaide in 1949. This substantial gathering of 200 works, curated by Elle Freak at the Art Gallery of South Australia, celebrates the prolific output of siblings closely linked by surrealism but with distinct individual creative journeys.

Dušan Thomas Marek (1926–1993) and Voitre (Vojtech) Marek (1919–1999) were born in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, and as young men both embarked on artistic careers. They were exposed to surrealism at an.

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