In 1924, 100 years ago, the first Surrealist Manifesto appeared. During the year 2024, several museums – notably the Center Pompidou – and French galleries, in collaboration with the Professional Committee of Art Galleries, are joining forces to organize a series of events to commemorate this event.
From the beginning of September to the end of November 2024, Le Minotaure gallery, Alain Le Gaillard gallery, Kaléidoscope gallery and Jacques and Thessa Herold collection will present the exhibition under the title Surréel. Trois petites histoires surréalistes. It will echo the 100 years of Surrealism and will extend the experience of the show dedicated to biomorphism of the 1930s-1950s, organized in 2019 by the Le Minotaure gallery and Alain Le Gaillard. Its curator, as 5 years ago, will be Guitemie Maldonado, art historian and author of the book “The Circle and the Amoeba: Biomorphism in the Art of the 1930s” who, alongside Didier Ottinger, will also collaborate in the Center Pompidou event.
Our exhibition will offer a journey through time, from contemporary art to the modern art, showing works inspired by surrealist situations and forms (also coming from outside the surrealist movement).
The display, as well as the important catalog that will accompany it, will be organized around three main categories (with potential subcategories): Formes Simples (often echoing nature and becoming emblematic of modern aesthetics in the 20th century) , Métamorphoses (which constituted the privileged instrument of investigation and creation of surrealist artists, one of the key themes of their enterprise) and Rêves & Cauchemars (by their attraction to the unconscious, their poetic and anti-literary dimension, they interested the surrealists as tools of transformation and means of renewing inspiration).
Among the artists we will present are:
Jean Arp, Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Erwin Blumenfeld, Louise Bourgeois, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Léonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Max Ernst, Jacques Grinberg, Vassili Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Yayoi Kusama, Wilfredo Lam, Sigalit Landau , Le Corbusier, Annette Messager, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Sabine Monirys, Francis Picabia, Anton Prinner, Man Ray, Antonio Recalcati, Carl Strüwe, Fernand Teyssier, Léon Tutundjian, Raoul Ubac…