'Surrealism & the Object' opens at Pompidou Centre in Paris
- 10 years ago
The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing off the treasures from one of its richest collections with “Surrealism and the Object”.
They include Dali’s ‘The Lobster Telephone’ and ‘Aphrodisiac Jacket’, (1936), Man Ray’s “Indestructible Object”, (1923), Victor Brauner’s ‘Wolf Table’, (1947), and Giacometti’s “Surrealist Table” (1933)
There also works from, among others, Ernst, Miro, and Duchamp,
Surrealism was at first a literary movement, experimenting with language free from conscious control. This soon extended to the plastic arts, photography and cinema, and exploded outwards from the-then world capital of the arts, Paris.
“Andre Breton once said that the surrealist objects are expressions of materialised dreams. They are a sort of parasite, objects that will disturb our relation with the reality. They are here to introduce a discordant element into reality. A disruptive element that will rip the curtain off reality and unveil what interests the Surrealists, which is : desire, th
They include Dali’s ‘The Lobster Telephone’ and ‘Aphrodisiac Jacket’, (1936), Man Ray’s “Indestructible Object”, (1923), Victor Brauner’s ‘Wolf Table’, (1947), and Giacometti’s “Surrealist Table” (1933)
There also works from, among others, Ernst, Miro, and Duchamp,
Surrealism was at first a literary movement, experimenting with language free from conscious control. This soon extended to the plastic arts, photography and cinema, and exploded outwards from the-then world capital of the arts, Paris.
“Andre Breton once said that the surrealist objects are expressions of materialised dreams. They are a sort of parasite, objects that will disturb our relation with the reality. They are here to introduce a discordant element into reality. A disruptive element that will rip the curtain off reality and unveil what interests the Surrealists, which is : desire, th