Marais, Paris
Group Exhibition
Surréalisme
Centre PompidouTickets available at tinyurl.com/59c3jpuj André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Ithell Colquhoun, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Tatsuo Ikeda, René Magritte, Dora Maar, Joan Miró, Grace Pailthorpe, Edith Rimmington, Dorothea Tanning, Suzanne Van Damme Designed like a maze, the Surrealism exhibition is an unprecedented dive into the exceptional creative effervescence of the Surrealist movement, born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto. Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition presents works by the movement’s iconic artists, as well as those by the female Surrealists. The exhibition is organised both chronologically and thematically, structured into 14 sections that evoke the literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade, etc.) and the poetic principles that structure its imagery (the artist as a medium, dreams, the philosopher’s stone, the forest, etc.). At the heart of the exhibition is a central “drum” housing the original manuscript of the Manifesto, an exceptional loan from the National Library of France. A multimedia screening accompanies the discovery of this unique document, providing insight into its creation and meaning.